• ZagorathOP
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    111 month 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.

      • ZagorathOP
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        61 month 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
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        41 month 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”