Digital IDs in South Korea

 Risk and Security of use.  

South Korea Aims to Boost Economy with Digital IDs on Blockchain

Bloomberg, Sam Kim, October 16, 2022

South Korea intends to offer its citizens a blockchain-secured digital identity in order to improve economic growth. The nation will launch digital IDs in 2024, expecting 45 million citizens to be using them within two years. The IDs will be embedded into mobile devices like smartphones. Suh Bo Ram, director-general of South Korea's digital-government bureau, said a decentralized identity framework will prevent the government from accessing data on individual phones, including whose digital IDs are used, how they are used, and where. Hwang Seogwon at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute said although digital IDs can be highly beneficial economically, "there has to be more risk assessment technologically to make sure the danger doesn't outweigh the benefits." ... ' 

Quantum Safe Hybrid Digital Certificates

 Looking at quantum safe.

What Is a Quantum-Safe Hybrid Digital Certificate?

Sectigo’s Tim Callan, Jason Soroko and Alan Grau break down what quantum safe hybrid TLS certificates are and how they can help to prepare businesses for quantum-safe cryptography in Sectigo’s  

Quantum computing is poised to disrupt the technological world as we know it. And although quantum computing — and all of the advantages it offers — is still realistically years away, businesses and organizations need to prepare themselves for its inevitable downside: broken cryptosystems.

Quantum computers will break our existing asymmetric cryptosystem — something that cybercriminals will be ready and eager to take advantage of. This is why it’ll be necessary to migrate your existing IT and cryptosystems to their quantum-resistant or quantum-safe equivalents.

But, of course, upgrading to post quantum cryptographic (PQC) systems and infrastructure takes time and resources. So, one of the ways to help futureproof your cyber security through this process is through the use of hybrid digital certificates such as a hybrid TLS certificate. ... " 

What Is a Quantum-Safe Hybrid Digital Certificate?

More linking Quantum methods and data and communications security.

What Is a Quantum-Safe Hybrid Digital Certificate?     Sectigo  in CYBER SECURITY

Sectigo’s Tim Callan, Jason Soroko and Alan Grau break down what quantum safe hybrid TLS certificates are and how they can help to prepare businesses for quantum-safe cryptography in Sectigo’s Root Causes podcast

Quantum computing is poised to disrupt the technological world as we know it. And although quantum computing — and all of the advantages it offers — is still realistically years away, businesses and organizations need to prepare themselves for its inevitable downside: broken cryptosystems.

Quantum computers will break our existing asymmetric cryptosystem — something that cybercriminals will be ready and eager to take advantage of. This is why it’ll be necessary to migrate your existing IT and cryptosystems to their quantum-resistant or quantum-safe equivalents.

But, of course, upgrading to post quantum cryptographic (PQC) systems and infrastructure takes time and resources. So, one of the ways to help futureproof your cyber security through this process is through the use of hybrid digital certificates such as a hybrid TLS certificate.  ... "