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Quick Hits *** The Office of Management and Budget is seeking public comment on the implementation of the Biden Administrations day-one executive order titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. OMBs request includes a section on federal procurement. Under the order, "agencies will need to assess opportunities to direct more procurement and contracting dollars to underserved individuals and communities so that a broad cross-section of...

May 03, 2021 Since 2016, NIST has been working with researchers to develop cryptographic algorithms that will be strong enough to resist the privacy and security threats quantum computers will pose. While those new algorithms will likely be ready before quantum computers are widely used, the transition from today’s standards to the new post-quantum public-key standards “is likely to be more problematic than the introduction of new classical cryptographic algorithms,” the paper states. “...

Date Time Challenges with Adopting Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms Cryptographic technologies are used throughout government and industry to authenticate the source and protect the confidentiality and integrity of information that we communicate and store. From time to time, it is necessary to replace a cryptographic algorithm because of new weaknesses or threats. Progress in the development of quantum computing foreshadows a particularly disruptive cryptographic transition. Practical qua...