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Australian Gov't Offers $560k Cryptographic Protocol For Free
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."
Wasn't the UK working on something similar to this? I believe it was something along the lines of Popular Encrypted National Identity Scheme...
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
Barf: What the hell was that?
Lone Starr: Spaceball One Encryption.
Barf: They've gone to plaid!
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