The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption
A G7 working group report urges governments and industry to accelerate post-quantum cryptography migration, framing quantum risk as a near-term economic threat.
A cybersecurity working group formed at the June 2026 G7 Summit in France called on organizations to stop postponing migration of critical systems to post-quantum cryptography, warning that harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks against currently encrypted data exist today. The report was signed by CISA, the UK NCSC, France's ANSSI, Germany's BSI, Canada's CSE, Japan's NCO, and Italy's ACN. It also cautions that some NIST-selected PQC algorithms have already been broken on classical computers, reinforcing support for crypto-agility. The push aligns with a recent US executive order moving federal PQC migration timelines from 2035 to 2030, while Google and others target 2029.
- Report signed by CISA, NCSC, ANSSI, BSI, CSE, Japan's NCO, and Italy's ACN
- Warns harvest-now-decrypt-later collection of encrypted data is a present threat
- Notes some NIST-selected PQC algorithms already broken, advocating crypto-agility
- US executive order moved federal PQC migration deadline from 2035 to 2030
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