A Deadline No One Can Negotiate Is Coming for the World's Encryption, and the Race to Get Ready Has Quietly Begun

NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American News Group News Commentary - The encryption that quietly protects the modern world, banking, identity, government records, private communications, was built on a bet: that the math underneath it would take longer to break than the secrets it guards need to stay safe. Quantum computing is threatening to collapse that bet. As the technology advances toward the point where it could unwind the public-key cryptography in use everywhere today, governments and standards bodies have stopped treating the shift to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) as a future research problem and started writing it into deadlines, mandates, and procurement rules. The result is a fast-forming market built around a single question thousands of organizations now have to answer: where does our cryptography live, how exposed is it, and how do we move to quantum-safe systems before it is too late.