The article reports that adversaries are collecting encrypted federal traffic now in anticipation of cryptographically relevant quantum computers expected in the mid-to-late 2030s. It urges agencies to complete cryptographic inventories and begin PQC migration under NSM-10 to protect defence, intelligence and citizen records.
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Nation-states are harvesting encrypted US federal data for future quantum decryption
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