Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029

Summary: Microsoft said on Tuesday it is accelerating its quantum-safe roadmap, aiming to move critical products and services to post-quantum cryptography by 2029 and folding PQC requirements into its Secure Future Initiative. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said advances in quantum research have shifted the risk horizon, and the company named TLS 1.3 adoption, crypto-agility for stored data, and PQC for trust chains such as code signing and certificate issuance as focus areas.
What you should know: The 'harvest now, decrypt later' model means data your adversaries copy today can be decoded once a large-scale quantum machine exists, and researchers have already shown ECDLP-256 broken with fewer qubits and gates and Shor's algorithm potentially practical with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable qubits against RSA-2048 and P-256.

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