• Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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    8 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.