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Executive Order 14412 sets a 2030 federal PQC deadline
Executive Order 14412, signed on June 22, 2026, gives the federal post-quantum migration dates that agencies have to plan against: key establishment by December 31, 2030 and digital signatures by December 31, 2031 for High Value Assets and high impact systems. It also directs the FAR Council to propose a rule carrying the same 2030 requirement to covered contractors. Here is what the order obliges, when each clock runs out, and which parts reach past the federal perimeter.
AI-found flaw sinks HAWK, a NIST PQC candidate
On July 28, 2026, Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Mythos Preview model found a structural weakness in HAWK, a lattice-based signature scheme in the third round of NIST's additional-signatures process. The flaw cut the estimated key-recovery cost for the smallest parameter set by roughly a million times, and the HAWK team withdrew the candidate days later. None of NIST's finalized standards, ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA, are affected.
NIST's 2030 and 2035 deadlines for legacy cryptography
NIST's transition report, IR 8547, names the dates the whole migration is timed against: today's public-key algorithms deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035. Those are not distant abstractions, they are a schedule you have to work backwards from. Here is what the deadlines say and what they mean.
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