U.S. President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders to accelerate America's quantum innovation while protecting the country from quantum computing threats.
According to the official White House website, Trump issued Executive Orders 14409 and 14411 on Monday.
EO 14409, titled "Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks," focuses on mitigating the threats posed by large-scale quantum computers to current encryption standards.
"The advent of large-scale quantum computers, particularly in the hands of adversaries, will pose a significant threat to widely used cryptographic security systems," the order said. "Ongoing cyber activity against our Nation also presents the risk of adversaries collecting United States information now, and decrypting it later once large-scale quantum computers are operational."
The order directed federal agencies to transition key information systems and high-value assets to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-approved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
