December 23, 2022
Biden Signs Post-Quantum Cybersecurity Guidelines Into Law
US President Joe Biden signed into law HR 7535, the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, which has two main components. First, the OMB is required to "prioritize" the switchover to PQC within a year of NIST issuing its new guidelines. That means that by July 5, 2023, OMB should begin moving toward implementing the NIST-approved cryptographic algorithms to protect systems in the executive branch.