The French Embassy in the United States sent its first encrypted diplomatic telegram to Paris, using a new generation of so-called post-quantum cryptography designed to survive quantum computer decryption capabilities.
The current cryptographic methods will soon be cracked by quantum computers, thus it will be crucial to create and master encryption technologies that will allow us to safeguard private communications in the future.
The French Quantum Plan benefits from €1.8 billion from France 2030 – it includes a €150-million component for devising cryptographic methods resistant to quantum computing. The initiative prefigures the development of critical digital infrastructure in France. An action plan will be set out by the end of the first quarter of 2023, with a timetable for this critical infrastructure’s migration to post-quantum cryptography.
