The Australian Government believes that it needs a golden key to backdoor encryption within Australia via legislation. The Brits and the Yanks have both already had a nudge at this and both have conceded that requiring a backdoor to encryption is not viable but this will not stop the Australian Liberal Party from trying.
Digital rights experts have described the proposal as "ludicrous" as Cyber security minister Angus Taylor stating that the legislation would be presented for public comment within the next quarter. While the Australian Government has not detailed how it expects to gain access to encrypted data, companies may be penalized if they don't kowtow to the new laws. There is nothing to be discussed here that hasn't been said before other than the Australian Government sincerely believes it can force companies to divulge encrypted data to authorities on demand.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @01:54PM
if it has a backdoor it's not encryption. that was my point.
otherwise I understand that the government can try to do whatever it wants (I *hope* Australians are smart enough to stop it at some point), but I am confident people outside of Australia (and most English speakers are outside Australia) would not agree with the new definition of the word "encryption".