ANSSI certification is required for French government agencies and critical infrastructure operators, making the decision a de facto phase-out of older cryptographic systems.
"It's not only a technical issue," ANSSI Chief of Staff Samih Souissi said at the annual France Quantum conference. "It's a matter of governance, industrial planning, regulation, and sovereignty."
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“The risk is going up, but this was expected. As we get closer and closer to a target date for full migration to [post-quantum cryptography], the confidence in that timeline generally goes up,” Boundless CEO Shiv Shankar previously told Decrypt. “There's no cause for panic. The smartest and most brilliant minds in the world are active on this problem.”
