{"id":14106,"date":"2026-07-07T05:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/france-to-stop-certifying-non-quantum-safe-encryption-html\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:03:30","slug":"france-to-stop-certifying-non-quantum-safe-encryption-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/france-to-stop-certifying-non-quantum-safe-encryption-html\/","title":{"rendered":"France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>France is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/france-stop-certifying-products-without-quantum-safe-encryption-2026-06-16\/\">accelerating<\/a> its transition to post-quantum encryption:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>France\u2019s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical operators to shift away from older systems.<\/p>\n<p>Samih Souissi, ANSSI\u2019s chief of staff, said at the France Quantum conference that the agency would halt such certifications from 2027, and that businesses should be buying only quantum-safe products by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>ANSSI approval is required for use in French government agencies and critical infrastructure, making the policy a de facto phase-out of older encryption.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/07\/france-to-stop-certifying-non-quantum-safe-encryption.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption France is accelerating its transition to post-quantum encryption: France\u2019s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical operators to shift away from older systems. Samih Souissi, ANSSI\u2019s chief of staff, said at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2570,412,979,978,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-14106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-certifications","category-encryption","category-france","category-quantum-cryptography","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}