Quantum anxiety sees Australia ban some crypto tech by 2030

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Australia’s chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation of the internet by the year 2030 – years before other nations plan to do so – over fears that advances in quantum computing could render it insecure.

  The proposal deprecates certain standards by 2030 – among them the RSA algorithm – and disallows them by 2035.

  I wish Australia were this forward-thinking in other respects (like banning ICE vehicles), but this is pretty cool. UQ is one of the world’s leading research institutions in quantum computing so it does make sense.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We where thos forward thinking with the internet as a whole then the liberal party fucked it to the moon and back.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With respect, nah, not really. I mean, yeah the LNP fucked us over royally with the NBN. But even the original NBN was mostly a plan to catch up with what the rest of the developed world already had. It wasn’t an example of us leading the world.

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    • Railison@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re about to do the same with the energy grid!

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Liberals: “You dont need fiber to the premises, OUR version will be cheaper and quicker.”
      Narrator: it was not cheaper, or completed earlier and the speeds are worse.

      Libs: “also we bought a shitload of fucked copper back off Telstra, who then laughed all the way to the bank”

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  BAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

  Are you kidding me?

  When the laws of mathematics don’t over ride the laws of Australia

  Whatever crypto tech is enabled is irrelevant. The government has already enacted laws that can force anybody in Australia to backdoor, hack or whatever to access anything they want.

  It’s just obvious that you access the data BEFORE it is encrypted.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t you remember that the laws of mathematics don’t apply to Australia

    The point here is the exact opposite of that nonsense though. It’s that in order for something to meet certain specific standards (HACE), it must not use quantum-unsafe cryptographic protocols by that time. It’s a push to say “hey, you should be using better encryption”.

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