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White House: Prepare for cryptography-cracking quantum computers
2022-05-05 20:01

President Joe Biden signed a national security memorandum on Thursday asking government agencies to implement measures that would mitigate risks posed by quantum computers to US national cyber security.

The multi-year effort to migrate all vulnerable cryptographic systems to quantum-resistant cryptography will span over 50 government departments and agencies that use National Security Systems.

"The No. 1 defense against this quantum computing threat is to implement quantum-resistant cryptography on our most important systems."

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will spearhead the quantum-resistant cryptography switch effort across US government systems and critical infrastructure.

US government agencies are ordered to prioritize the entire process of transitioning to quantum-resistant cryptography and mitigating as much of the quantum risk as possible by 2035.

In January, President Biden signed another security memo to increase NSS security and require federal agencies to report breaches on national security systems to the NSA. These two memos build on Biden Admin's work to defend the US against malicious cyber activity linked to nation-backed hackers and cybercriminals, including a national security memorandum designed to help strengthen the security of the critical infrastructure.


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