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☷President Biden Signs Memo to Combat Quantum Computing Threat
National Security Agency ( By Press Release office)
May 04,2022
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FORT MEADE , Md . — The White House announced today that President Joe Biden has signed a National Security Memorandum ( NSM ) aimed at maintaining U . S . leadership in quantum information sciences and to mitigate the risks of quantum computing to the Nation ' s security . "Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems" - also known as NSM - 10 - directs U . S . Government agencies to migrate vulnerable cryptographic systems to quantum - resistant cryptography as part of multi - year effort . As the National Manager for National Security Systems , the Director of NSA will oversee this process across the 50 - plus government departments and agencies using National Security Systems ( NSS ) - systems that contain classified information or are otherwise critical to military or intelligence operations . A quantum computer of sufficient size and sophistication - also known as a cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer - will be capable of breaking much of the public - key cryptography used on digital systems across the United States and the world . "A cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer could jeopardize civilian and military communications as well as undermine supervisory and control systems for critical infrastructure , " said GEN Paul M . Nakasone , Commander , USCYBERCOM , Director , NSA/Chief , CSS . "The No . 1 defense against this quantum computing threat is to implement quantum - resistant cryptography on our most important systems . " While NSA will spearhead many of the tasks in NSM - 10 to ensure NSS are quantum resistant , the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ) will ensure U . S . critical infrastructure and other U . S . Government systems also move toward quantum - resistant cryptography . "Implementing approved quantum - resistant cryptographic solutions across all of our systems will not happen overnight , but it ' s critical that we chart a path to get there considering the potential threat of quantum computing , " said Rob Joyce , NSA Cybersecurity Director and Deputy National Manager for National Security Systems .
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