{"id":279926,"date":"2026-06-23T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/white-house-pqc-order-lights-a-fire-under-post-quantum-transition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:45:12","slug":"white-house-pqc-order-lights-a-fire-under-post-quantum-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/white-house-pqc-order-lights-a-fire-under-post-quantum-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"White House PQC order \u2018lights a fire\u2019 under post-quantum transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House PQC order \u2018lights a fire\u2019 under post-quantum transition<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/06\/white-house-pqc-order-lights-a-fire-under-post-quantum-transition\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-23 17:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The White House is accelerating the governmentwide shift to post-quantum cryptography through new deadlines and pilots, but key questions remain about how agencies will fund and carry out a complex PQC transition.<\/p>\n

In an executive order signed Monday, President Donald Trump directs agencies to identify lead PQC transition officials within 30 days.<\/p>\n

The order requires agencies to transition \u201chigh value assets\u201d and \u201chigh impact systems\u201d to post-quantum cryptographic keys by Dec. 31, 2030 and PQC digital signatures by the end of 2031.<\/p>\n

Under the Biden administration, agencies had generally been planning to shift to the new algorithms by 2035.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s EO builds on work in recent years to plan for a \u201ccryptographically-relevant quantum computer,\u201d or one that could break current data encryption standards. Cybersecurity experts are particularly concerned that U.S. adversaries could steal data today and decrypt using a quantum computer in the future, in what\u2019s known as a \u201charvest now, decrypt later\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology finalized the first post-quantum encryption standards and encouraged organizations to start the transition.<\/p>\n

The accelerated deadlines in Trump\u2019s new EO \u201creally lights a fire under everyone to say, \u2018hey, this is something that the government\u2019s taking seriously,\u2019\u201d according to Garfield Jones, the former associate chief of strategic technology at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt drops it right in the CIO\u2019s lap to say, \u2018I\u2019ve got to get this ready. This is not for somebody else\u2019s tenure 10 years from now. It\u2019s my tenure now that I have to get this done,\u2019\u201d Jones, who is now executive vice president for strategy and research at PQC firm QuSecure, told Federal News Network.<\/p>\n

The EO directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue new PQC guidance to agencies within 90…<\/p>\n

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