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RobotToaster@mander.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption

www.newscientist.com

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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
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    Tldr would be that there are no safe ECC curves in TLS? Yet

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      P256 isn’t known to be insecure if implemented right, it’s just harder to implement right

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      The WRC deals with unsafe curves all the time. I think picking a couple of spots on some of their curves at high speed would be interesting. Samir has been known to break some of these…

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