• "In the medium term, we need to be prepared for the eventuality that large quantum computers could be built: this would require an upgrade of most symmetric cryptographic algorithms and a completely new generation of public-key algorithms."

    SecurIST, “D3.3 – ICT Security & Dependability Research beyond 2010: Final Strategy”, January 2007

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  • “When will we be secure? Nobody knows for sure – but it cannot happen before commercial security products and services possess not only enough functionality to satisfy customers’ stated needs, but also sufficient assurance of quality, reliability, safety, and appropriateness for use. Such assurances are lacking in most of today’s commercial security products and services.”

    Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), "We need Assurance", 2005

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  • “Business now relies on information infrastructures that are interlinked and interdependent… The way in which these hidden interdependencies pervade our everyday lives is staggering and, in some cases, may go unchecked for many years until an incident occurs that revels the true nature of the interdependences' impact.”

    The British Government’s Technology Strategy Board, 2008
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Organisation: United Nations
About the UN:

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. Due to its unique international character, and the powers vested in its founding Charter, the Organization can take action on a wide range of issues, and provide a forum for its 192 Member States to express their views, through the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies and committees.

UN Quote:

The Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Dr. Hamadoun Toure, is calling for global cooperation to ensure security in cyberspace.

Quoting Dr. Toure: "The next world war could take place in the cyberspace and this needs to be avoided. The conventional wars have shown us that first of all, there is no winner in any war and second, the best way to win a war is to avoid it in the first place. So we need to plant the seeds for a safer cyberspace together. And it can only be done at the global level because the criminal needs no longer to be on the crime scene and you can attack many places at the same time in the cyberspace."

Dr. Toure said there is no such thing as a superpower in cyberspace because it's the human brain that makes a difference in this field, one resource, in his view, that is equally distributed everywhere on the globe. [Article link]
UN Fact:

The headquarters of the global coalition to tackle the world’s most serious cybersecurity threats, backed by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is now operational (2009). The new state-of-the-art facilities of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber-Threats (IMPACT) in Cyberjaya will host the ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA), which promotes international cooperation to make cyberspace more secure in an increasingly networked information society. [Article link]
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 June 2010 15:41