Jones previously served as associate chief of strategic technology at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where he led its post-quantum cryptography work. Researchers expected a commercially viable, cryptographically relevant quantum computer to emerge by 2035, but Jones said assessments, drawing on a Google paper published in March, now point to 2029 for a fault-tolerant machine. Data stolen from federal networks today is not always used today, Jones wrote. Much of it is stored, held by adversaries who expect to read it once computing power exists, particularly a quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm, which could break the Rivest-Shamir-Adelman algorithm and elliptic-curve encryption. QuSecure offers QuProtect R3, a platform for scanning cryptographic assets, rolling out NIST-approved algorithms and documenting compliance.