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

  • LmaydevEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Theres a theory that China are sucking up as much encrypted data as they can so that when computers are powerful enough then they can easily crack it.

    Encryption is based on it being too time consuming / complex to crack but older methods are continuously becoming weak.

    It’s all an illusion really.