Skip to main content

Last reviewed 10 November 2026

Data that needs to stay confidential for years

This route is for data whose confidentiality period makes harvest-now, decrypt-later the reason to start work now.

Read in this order:

  1. Diagnose
  2. Inventory
  3. Inventory record
  4. Priority
  5. Priority record
  6. Key establishment
  7. Dates

The output is a priority record for the assets with a long confidentiality period.

Primary next page: Diagnose.

For a labelled illustration, not a real organisation, see Protect this first.

Sources​

  • NIST, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards (NIST IR 8547), October 2026. NIST IR 8547