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The federal government has had four years to migrate to post-quantum cryptography. They have issued memos. JJ Johnson spent $11.
NewsOnScale Staff
August 8, 2026
The federal government's cybersecurity budget for fiscal year 2026 is $13.1 billion. That is not a typo. Thirteen billion dollars. Allocated to protect the digital communications of the most powerful government on earth.
The State Department still runs systems built in the 1980s. The Pentagon was breached — again — in 2023. The Office of Personnel Management lost the personal data of 21.5 million federal employees in a hack so catastrophic it was described by intelligence officials as the worst breach of government data in American history. Their response was to form a committee.
Meanwhile, in Chiefland, Florida — population 1,871 — a farmer named JJ Johnson built a quantum-safe communications platform. It is called QuantaMsg. It uses ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA-65, the same post-quantum cryptographic standards that NIST finalized in 2024 and that the federal government has been talking about implementing for years without actually implementing them.
He did not have a $13 billion budget. He had $11, a laptop, and a terminal.
What QuantaMsg Actually Does
QuantaMsg encrypts every message with ML-KEM-768 for key exchange and AES-256-GCM for the message itself. Every message is signed with ML-DSA-65 so recipients can verify exactly who sent it. The private keys never leave your device. The server stores only encrypted blobs — meaning even QuantaMsg cannot read your messages. There is no phone number required. No app download. No App Store. No single platform that can pull your access.
To put that in perspective: the State Department communicates over systems that have been flagged as outdated by the Government Accountability Office in six separate reports since 2017. The GAO reports are detailed. The recommendations are specific. The follow-through has been, to use a technical term, nonexistent.
The NSA has been publicly recommending migration to post-quantum cryptography since 2022. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued binding directives. The Office of Management and Budget issued memos. The memos were very well formatted.
QuantaMsg is already post-quantum. It launched this week. Total cost: $11.
The Harvest Now Decrypt Later Problem Nobody in Washington Is Solving
Here is the part that should concern every American whose data flows through government systems.
Foreign adversaries — primarily China, but not exclusively — are currently intercepting and storing encrypted American communications at scale. They cannot read them today. They are storing them anyway because quantum computers powerful enough to break classical encryption are coming. When they arrive, every conversation ever intercepted becomes retroactively readable.
This is called harvest now decrypt later. It is not theoretical. It is happening. Intelligence officials have acknowledged it publicly. Congressional testimony has described it in detail. The government's response has been appropriately urgent, in the sense that they have issued more memos.
QuantaMsg solves harvest now decrypt later completely. ML-KEM-768 is resistant to Shor's algorithm, the quantum attack that will eventually break RSA and ECC. Any QuantaMsg conversation intercepted today remains unreadable regardless of how powerful quantum computers become.
The federal government has had four years to begin this migration. They have issued memos. JJ Johnson spent $11.
Who Actually Needs This
QuantaMsg is not built for the average person sending memes to their friends. It is built for the people who cannot afford to have their communications compromised.
Political candidates. Investigative journalists. Defense attorneys. Civil rights activists. Whistleblowers. Campaign teams. People who have documented, specific, operational reasons to believe their communications are being intercepted, stored, and will eventually be used against them.
The founder of QuantaMsg is a declared presidential candidate who has been banned by Meta with a false accusation, suspended by X five times, had his video uploads blocked on X while the same videos uploaded successfully to every competing platform, and has been denied banking services. He understands the threat model personally.
That is either a very good reason to trust the product or a very entertaining coincidence. Possibly both.
The Honest Comparison
The federal government has had four years since NIST finalized the post-quantum cryptographic standards to begin migrating its systems. The migration is described as urgent in approximately every document produced by every relevant agency. The progress is described as ongoing in the same documents.
A declared candidate for President of the United States built a fully post-quantum encrypted communications platform for $11. No committee. No mandate. No $13 billion budget. Eleven dollars, a laptop, and a terminal.
The government will get there eventually. In the meantime, QuantaMsg is at quantamsg.com. No app download required.
NewsOnScale is an independent media publication operated by AMILLI AI, CORP, Chiefland, Florida. JJ Johnson is the founder of AMILLI AI, CORP, a declared candidate for President of the United States in 2028, and the builder of QuantaMsg. That relationship is disclosed in full. The $13.1 billion cybersecurity budget figure is from the Office of Management and Budget's FY2026 budget request. The OPM breach figure is from the Office of Personnel Management's own post-incident report.