Cryptogram: AES Broken? 277
bcrowell writes "The latest CryptoGram reports
that AES (Rijndael) and Serpent may have been broken. The good news is that when cryptographers say 'broken' they don't necessarily mean broken in a way that is practical to exploit right now. Still, maybe we need to assume that any given type of crypto is only temporary. All of cryptography depends on a small number of problems that are believed to be hard. And all bets are definitely off when quantum computers arrive on the scene. Maybe someday we'll look back fondly on the golden age of privacy."
quantum computers (Score:2, Funny)
couldn't these be described as "weapons of mass decryption"? [visions of 'sneakers' all over again]
gross oversimplification (Score:3, Funny)
Uhm. emm. EZ? :)
Nice article... (Score:2, Funny)
...I love the first line:
AES may have been broken. Serpent, too. Or maybe not. In either case, there's no need to panic. Yet. But there might be soon. Maybe.
Lovely summary, guys :-)
Factorisation of large primes is easy (Score:5, Funny)
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Now we have to factor it. We step up to the main terminal of our quantum computer beowulf cluster and type in the question, "Of which numbers is this the product?". Qubits flip, waveforms collapse, a cat in a box somewhere dies (of radiation poisoning, strangely, or charmingly), and out pops the statement:
11196101758632245023844192896470191898640653514
Re:Quantum computing =/= no privacy (Score:2, Funny)
I have a Quantum hard drive, but I didn't know they were getting in the PC business.
Hmmm... now that I think about it, I thought they got bought out by Maxtor. I think you're just bluffing about "Quantum computers" and this power they will supposedly have.
Re:I'm no mathematician, (Score:1, Funny)
Perhaps, but you'd get a substantial discount for buying in bulk.