Davis

IN FOUR MONTHS, THE NSA STOPS BUYING ANYTHING THAT RUNS ON TODAY'S ENCRYPTION. THE REASON IS QUANTUM COMPUTERS. This is not a proposal, but a published directive with a date. It's called CNSA 2.0, the NSA issued it in 2022, tightened it in 2025, and almost nobody outside the agency has read it. It quietly orders every national security system in America to abandon the encryption the entire internet runs on, because a large enough quantum computer breaks all of it, and the NSA has decided that machine is coming. The schedule: January 1, 2027: every new system the government buys for classified or sensitive work must use quantum resistant encryption. 2030: all network equipment and software signing must run quantum resistant only. Legacy gear that can't be upgraded gets ripped out. 2033: operating systems, applications, cloud. Everything. 2035: full quantum resistance across all national security systems. Hard stop. The NSA gave the EARLIEST deadlines to two categories, signed software and network traffic. Their stated reason: those are most exposed to harvest-now-decrypt-later, adversaries recording encrypted data today to crack it once the quantum computer exists. Defense systems take 18 to 36 months to build. Anything designed today ships after the deadline. For much of the government, the planning window already closed. Meanwhile your bank, your hospital, and the app you're reading this on run the exact algorithms the NSA is abandoning. $INFQ $IONQ $QBTS $RGTI