Test Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms Now, Cybersecurity Experts Say

…Agencies should test post-quantum cryptography algorithms with their software and decide whether information security benefits outweigh the efficiency losses ahead of a federally mandated transition, according to security experts…

…NIST expects to publish approved algorithms “potentially within a few weeks,” a spokesperson told FedScoop, and while the standards will be optional, agencies may mandate them in accordance with National Security Memorandum-10…

…The memo requires agencies to inventory their high-value assets and systems vulnerable to quantum computers which, while a decade or more away, will be able to break most public-key cryptography securing systems, and it gives them a year from NIST’s release to issue plans to transition to quantum-resistant cryptography…

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