G7 Urges Immediate Transition to Post-Quantum Encryption as US Accelerates 2030 Deadline

A G7 cybersecurity working group prepared a report in June urging governments and global organizations to reframe the quantum computing threat from a distant future problem to a near-term economic risk that requires immediate action. The Trump administration recently issued an executive order accelerating the internal federal timeline for migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) from 2035 to 2030. Google and other major tech companies are targeting an even more aggressive timeline, pushing to complete their migration by 2029. The transition is being driven by the immediate threat of "harvest now, decrypt later" operations, where adversaries steal encrypted data today to break it once quantum hardware matures. The algorithms vetted by NIST and the NSA require mathematical estimation since quantum computers don't exist yet, and some selected algorithms have already been defeated by AI or traditional computers.