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Trump Cybersecurity EO Scrambles Post-Quantum Preparation

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'As Soon as Practicable' No Longer Federal Policy Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • June 11, 2025

The White House scrapped many of the previous administration's eleventh-hour cyber policies in a June 6, 2025 executive order. (Image: Jeff Harmon/Shutterstock)

A Friday White House executive order on cybersecurity has created uncertainty for federal agency efforts to prepare for the coming era of post-quantum computing encryption by scrapping Biden-era requirements.

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The order directs the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to maintain and regularly update a list of product categories where post-quantum cryptography is commercially available. The directive stops short of a procurement mandate and steps back from former President Joe Biden's call for agencies to adopt quantum-resistant encryption "as soon as practicable" (see: Trump Rewrites Cybersecurity Policy in Executive Order).

The Trump executive order lays groundwork for post-quantum readiness but it ...


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