Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption - eviltoast
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
  • Treczoks@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Well, this is not exactly news. They are doing that for ages. They crippled DES, if you still remember this method at all.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Just go read the original source, djb’s blog post about it.

    TL;DR: he thinks NIST either (through incompetence or NSA pressure) misrepresented NTRU vs. KYBER, and that KYBER-512 might be weaker than claimed so use KYBER-768.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Yes please. Work on breaking encryption standards to have the standards evolve to be more secure.

    Quantum computers may soon

    We hear this since 40 years now. Still no sign of the “soon” they talk about.