Harvest-now, decrypt-later: why the attack is already underway
Nation-state actors are collecting encrypted government traffic today, with the explicit intent to decrypt it once quantum hardware scales.
Nation-state adversaries are conducting harvest-now-decrypt-later operations against Australian government, critical infrastructure networks and organisations. Data encrypted today with RSA or ECC will be decryptable once scaled quantum computers are operational — a capability assessed to arrive within this decade.
The ASD has fixed mandatory milestones: planning complete by 2026, full PQC migration by 2030. Organisations that begin now have time to do this carefully. Those that delay will face compressed timelines, higher cost, and regulatory exposure.
See how we respondShor's algorithm renders RSA, ECC, and Diffie-Hellman cryptographically broken at quantum scale.
Harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks compromise data long before quantum hardware is public.
Commonwealth agencies face fixed 2026 planning and 2030 migration milestones.
Cryptographic dependencies reach into every vendor, SaaS tool, and infrastructure component.
We walk your executive team through the threat model, the ASD timeline, and what an execution-ready transition plan looks like for your estate. No sales follow-up. Delivered by practitioners.