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Australian Gov't Offers $560k Cryptographic Protocol For Free

Posted by Soulskill on from the as-in-beer dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Australia's national welfare agency will release its 'unbreakable' AU$560,000 smart card identification protocol for free. The government agency wants other departments and commercial businesses to adopt the Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of ID (PLAID), which withstood three years of design and testing by Australian and American security agencies. The agency has one of Australia's most advanced physical and logical converged security systems: staff can access doors and computers with a single centrally-managed identity card, and user identities can be automatically updated as employees leave, are recruited or move to new departments. PLAID, which will be available soon, is to be used in the agency's incoming fleet of contact-less smartcards that are currently under trial by staff. It will replace existing identity cards that operate on PKI encryption."

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  1. Re:Surprisingly sedate acronym by Sockatume · · Score: 2, Funny

    (I'm not saying that the encryption is sinister, just that after so many contrived fist-pumping acronyms in the past decade, it's creepy.)

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  2. So when it gets replaced by courtjester801 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can it be referred to as the Former Lightweight Authentication of ID, or FLACID?

    1. Re:So when it gets replaced by tychovi · · Score: 3, Funny

      I knew I should've taken the blue pill...

  3. PLACID by ajlitt · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a much better acronym than the originally proposed Protocol for Automated National Identification and Control.

    1. Re:PLACID by Java+Pimp · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's a much better acronym than the originally proposed Protocol for Automated National Identification and Control.

      Or the lesser known Protocol for Enhanced Network and Internet Security.

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    2. Re:PLACID by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

      But any of us with good fashion sense would prefer the Protocol for Authenticating Identification Systems with Latent Encryption Yobs over the original PLAID anyway.

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    3. Re:PLACID by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nobody Asked Me Before Labeling the Authentication!

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  4. What unbreakble? Fah! by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sure it will blend.

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  5. Surviving design... by knifeyspooney · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...which withstood three years of design and testing by Australian and American security agencies

    Anything that withstands three years of attempted government design must be robust indeed.

  6. Re:contactless smart cards are the way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "To revoke privileges to your lost card, please validate your identity by presenting your smart card"

  7. Spaceballs by GordonCopestake · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dark Helmet: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed... Lonestar: It's Spaceball 1. Barf: They've gone to plaid! ...

  8. It is the fastest protocol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    While some crypto protocols are capable of ludicrous speed, this protocol can go plaid.

  9. Getting PLAID by sakonofie · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm just waiting for the advertisement that says:

    I can't wait to get PLAID by the Australian government.

  10. Re:Surprisingly sedate acronym by Sockatume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jingosim? Damn it.

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