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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days 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.

[–] JackFrostNCola 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Im still waiting on my fibre to the fucking node. Getting starlink cos fuck u elon is doing a better job than u can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

BAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Are you kidding me?

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

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

Anyways, it's just obvious that you access the data BEFORE it is encrypted. Quantum encrypt/E2EE it however you want after I already have the data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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".