Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
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Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process

Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption::Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    They fucked with DES back in the day

    Yep. I remember. IBM thought they had something new and BIG, and then came the NSA and just substituted some S-Boxes without comment. And boom, the key space got smaller.

    The NSA has a dual job. They want to break encryption, but they also need to protect US secrets.

    For them it is sufficient when they can happily read along.