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

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      91·
      3 years ago

      I think you vastly underestimate modern encryption. I would recommend looking up concepts and math from encryption, it makes more sense for why thinking that practically unbreakable encryption is very much possible once you do.

      It’s why governments want to implement back-doors, because they are not actually capable of breaking it more directly.

        • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9·
          3 years ago

          …it’s literally about accusing NSA of trying to implement back-doors for quantum resistant encryption.

          I have no idea what you’re trying to get at.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            3 years ago

            NIST is giving incorrect information. That will not enable back doors. And it is only a matter of time before that doesn’t matter. I have no idea why you think there is such a thing as an unbreakable code that is not a one-time use code.

            Edit: ACCUSED of giving incorrect information.

            • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
              71·
              3 years ago

              I have no idea why you think there is such a thing as an unbreakable code that is not a one-time use code.

              I have no idea why you think there isn’t. Maybe you’re going off a strange definition of “unbreakable”. When it’s used in cryptography, it means “unbreakable in reasonable time limits” (e.g. millions of years).

              The thing about good encryption is that it’s not just hard to break, it’s mathematically too hard to break even if your available computing power keeps rising exponentially. Unless there is a mistake in the algorithm, it is for all intents and purposes, unbreakable.