Governments Just Put a Deadline on Encryption, and a Quiet Corner of Cybersecurity Is Suddenly on the Clock.

Equity Insider News Commentary - For most of the internet's history, the encryption protecting banking, identity, communications, and state secrets has been treated as a settled problem. That assumption is now expiring. As quantum computing advances toward the point where it could break the public-key cryptography the world currently relies on, governments have stopped treating the transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as a research topic and started treating it as a procurement deadline