Message boards : Cafe : Your encrypted files are 'exponentially easier' to crack, warns MIT

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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 6 May 11 Posts: 55 Credit: 231,548 RAC: 0	Message 2606 - Posted: 15 Aug 2013, 3:34:37 UTC Encryption systems may be a lot less secure than we thought, according to new research into the maths underpinning today's cryptography. Researchers in the US and Ireland have managed to poke holes in modern information theory, an area of mathematics used to prove the strength of cryptographic systems before they are trusted and widely deployed. -- more -- ID: 2606 · Rating: 0 · rate: /     Reply Quote

Message boards : Cafe : Your encrypted files are 'exponentially easier' to crack, warns MIT