Friday, August 2, 2013

Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Crisis | MIT Technology Review

Math Advances Raise the Prospect of an Internet Security Crisis | MIT Technology Review: “Our conclusion is there is a small but definite chance that RSA and classic Diffie-Hellman will not be usable for encryption purposes in four to five years..."

 ...it is possible that algorithms able to solve the discrete logarithm problem quickly could exist...

...French academic Antoine Joux published two papers that suggest such an algorithm could be found before long...

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