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

  • thesmokingmanEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is still somehow the predominant attitude. It has also been the traditional attitude that led to things like RSA and PGP getting attacked by the Us government.