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
If this is true, NSA might be shooting themselves in the foot when they inevitably have to deal with Russia and China.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Daniel Bernstein (djb) is a well known and respected cryptography researcher so his claim carries a lot of weight. It’s also worth noting that NIST didn’t invent these post quantum encryption algorithm. Instead, they run a competition and select a winner. Djb’s algorithm got a second place, so people were wondering if he’s just being salty about it, though if NIST were really compromised, it’s not hard to imagine they’ll select a weaker algorithm as the winner instead. NIST has posted a response which might be worth a read.
heeplr@feddit.de 1 year ago
They did it before and they’ll do it again.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thanks for that link - this whole story is massively overblown clickbait.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
The second link has replies that even say the OPs link contains conspiracy theory. The discussion there is better than all else, IMO.