Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
www.newscientist.com Mathematician warns US spies 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
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Before, elliptical curve encryption has been hailed as the new golden standard, only too bad there is a serious weakness where if you know the seed you can crack the code. And guess who has the seed? Starts with N and ends with SA.
Goddamn NASA and their meddling!
And here I thought it was the National Emergency Services Academy.
Curve25519 should be fine.
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