PredictionPolicy & securityPending

Australia tells organisations to drop RSA and elliptic-curve encryption by 2030

Due 2030

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the country's cyber security agency, recommends that organisations stop using traditional public-key cryptography such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman and elliptic-curve algorithms by the end of 2030 and move to post-quantum algorithms.

Predicted by

Australian Government

Type

Government target

Said on

Dec 2024

Original deadline

by the end of 2030 (2030)

Status

Pending

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Related

• US orders its most sensitive systems onto post-quantum encryption by 2030 (due Dec 31, 2030)
• EU: critical infrastructure on post-quantum cryptography by end of 2030 (due 2030)
• NIST plans to drop RSA and elliptic-curve encryption from its standards by 2035 (due 2035)