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Title: Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
Post by: petskup on May 20, 2014, 03:58:01 PM
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-unassailable-encryption-algorithm-hours.html


Title: Re: Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
Post by: Foxpup on May 21, 2014, 02:17:13 AM
What kind of idiot describes an unproven candidate algorithm as "unassailable"? That's not a rhetorical question, either: the article doesn't actually quote anybody as saying any such thing. Unproven algorithms are broken all the time; that's how they're tested. How is this even news? ???


Title: Re: Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
Post by: kuroman on May 21, 2014, 02:21:16 PM
Just for reference the algo in it self 128-bit (secure) Supersingular Binary Curves

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/119.pdf

It's amazing how the paper doesn't look out of reach and can be/or at least partially understood by anyone who is math and crypto literate, a