New Research Cracks AES Keys 3-5x Faster 176
Landing his first accepted submission, qpgmr writes "AES, generally thought to be the gold standard for encryption, is showing weaknesses. From Computerworld: 'Researchers from Microsoft and the [Belgian] Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard, the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications.'"
The full paper has lots of details. Note that it would still take a few billion years with current computers to actually break anything, but there may be further vunerabilities yet to be discovered.
Re:"current computers" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"current computers" (Score:5, Funny)
you mean our equipment?
it's widely known that the NSA uses all known operating systems for distributing computing tasks.
So every windows computer connected to the Internet will accept NSA task packets and compute them and send them back. It does this seamlessly though so the user never sees anything. They built it into the TCP/IP stack. It just becomes easier with windows and even Linux. (SELinux anyone?)
Re:The AES-128 "crack" requires 2^88 bytes of stor (Score:5, Funny)
The NSA called. They deny that any such data center exists.
Re:Correction (Score:4, Funny)
Cool, the mods changed the summary. Since the error was in TFA this means we are in the historically nearly unprecedented situation of having a summary that's more correct than TFA ;-)
(What I meant to say is, good job.)