Essam Sharaf named Nabil Elaraby, a former judge with the Hague-based International Court of Justice, and Mansour el-Essawy for the crucial positions on Sunday, according to a post on the Facebook page of the prime minister's office.
Elaraby's appointment came hours after El-Essawy's, but Sharaf's cabinet list has yet to be confirmed.
Elaraby would replace Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, who has held the post since 2004.
El-Essawy replaces Mohmoud Wagdi, who was appointed by Mubarak in the wake of the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters by security forces on January 28. El-Essawy is a former head of security for Giza, which is in greater Cairo, and is a former governor of Minya in Upper Egypt.
Sharaf also named Mohammed al-Guindy, a former attorney general, as minister of justice to replace Mamdouh Marie, who has been widely accused of corruption.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Cairo, said: "The message that's being delivered to the international community with someone that's as seasoned a diplomat as Nabil Elaraby is that it's a departure from the past [of Mubarak]."
Just hours after the new appointments, Egyptian troops fired into the air during a protest outside the interior ministry offices in Cairo by activists demanding reform of the security forces, witnesses said.
The activists said they were confronted by men in plain clothes armed with knives during the protest. Two activists speaking to the Reuters news agency by telephone said they were trapped by men they called "thugs".
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