New executive orders direct agencies to accelerate quantum-resistant encryption efforts and lay the groundwork for contractor compliance as the White House warns adversaries are already collecting encrypted data for future decryption.

The White House is drastically shortening the deadline for government agencies and organizations to adopt new quantum-resistant encryption systems that will withstand attacks that use quantum computers, as the federal government seeks to protect decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and most individuals on Earth.

Trump orders federal agencies to adopt post-quantum encryption by 2031 as concerns grow over crypto security.

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House on June 22, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed two orders on quantum computing. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Donald Trump ...

Quantum computers powerful enough to break widely used public-key encryption aren’t here yet, but migration won’t be as simple as swapping in a new tool.

French authorities said that government cybersecurity researchers will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption beginning in 2027.

As AI-accelerated cybercrime and quantum computing rapidly erode the protections of traditional public-key cryptography, Symmatrics introduces a fundamentally different approach: a non-mathematical, non-factorization-based,