Stakeholders highlight urgency to House panel of moving quickly with implementing post-quantum cryptography

Industry stakeholders provided details on looming cyber threats from quantum computing at a House Oversight hearing, emphasizing the need to move quickly on implementing post-quantum cryptography compared to a 2035 deadline set by former President Biden.

“We now live in an era of retroactive insecurity where vast amounts of sensitive and encrypted data, government communications, defense secrets [and] critical infrastructure telemetry are being silently intercepted, stored by foreign adversaries. This is known as ‘harvest now, decrypt later,’ the tactic perfected...