Agreed, and there's heaps of interesting work in Australia if you know where to find it. I'm working on commercialising (a restricted subset of semi-) homomorph

Agreed, and there's heaps of interesting work in Australia if you know where to find it. I'm working on commercialising (a restricted subset of semi-) homomorphic encryption, leveraging Hyperledger for some really interesting companies, and tbh getting paid really well to do so. Even outside of that, a lot of big important companies are starting to take security seriously here in Australia, which I think is a great thing :)