| Author (Corporate) | European Commission: DG Communications Networks Content and Technology |
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| Series Title | Official Journal of the European Union |
| Series Details | (L) 2024/1101 |
| Publication Date | 12/04/2024 |
| Content Type | News, Policy-making |
Summary:Recommendation (EU) 2024/1101 - adopted by the European Commission on 11 April 2024 - setting out a Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography. Further information:Encryption is essential to the digital world for securing digital systems and transactions, for protecting a series of fundamental rights as well as for securing defence capabilities. The race pursued by various countries and private entities for developing quantum computing capabilities, and unlocking new potentially rewarding opportunities, poses threats to current cryptographic standards. These standards play a pivotal role in ensuring data confidentiality, and integrity, the protection of sensitive communications, and supporting essential elements of network security. Post-Quantum Cryptography is seen as one of the solutions to ensuring that communications remain protected in the future, as it is based on mathematical problems that are difficult even for quantum computers to solve. The EU Security Union Strategy and the EU Cybersecurity Strategy highlight encryption as a key technology for achieving resilience, technological sovereignty and for building operational capacity to prevent cyberattacks. The European Commission has been funding research on developing Post-Quantum Cryptography for over a decade, recognising the potential threat quantum computing poses to present public key cryptography. This Recommendation seeks to foster the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography for the protection of digital infrastructures and services for public administrations and other critical infrastructures in the European Union (EU). It encourages Member States to define a Post-Quantum Cryptography Coordinated Implementation Roadmap in order to synchronise the efforts of Member States to design and implement national transition plans while ensuring cross-border interoperability; support the evaluation and selection of relevant Post-Quantum Cryptography EU algorithms; take measure to prepare for this transition. The text was adopted by the European Commission on 11 April 2024 and published in the Official Journal on the following day. |
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| Source Link | http://data.europa.eu/eli/reco/2024/1101/oj |
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| Subject Categories | Security and Defence |
| Subject Tags | Cybersecurity | Cyber-security, Telecommunications |
| International Organisations | European Union [EU] |
