The Procurement Cliff: Why Post-Quantum Has To Be In The Record From Day One

The National Security Agency's CNSA 2.0 sets a hard 2027 cliff for quantum-safe procurement, and harvest-now-decrypt-later means records signed today must already resist a future quantum adversary. Mickai's Open Audit Record signs with FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 from inception, so a chain written in 2026 still verifies in 2035.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/procurement-cliff-post-quantum-in-the-record-from-day-one. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 101 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).