• ZagorathOP
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    5 hours 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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        3 hours 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@lemmy.world
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        4 hours 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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        4 hours ago

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