Winehole23
08-07-2013, 12:16 PM
The encryption systems used to secure online bank accounts and keep critical communications private could be undone in just a few years, security researchers warned at the Black Hat conference (http://www.blackhat.com/us-13/) in Las Vegas yesterday. Breakthroughs in math research made in the past six months could underpin practical, fast ways to decode encrypted data that’s considered unbreakable today.
Alex Stamos, chief technology officer of the online security company Artemis (https://www.artemis.net/), led a presentation describing how he and three other security researchers studied recent publications from the insular world of academic cryptopgraphy research, which covers trends in attacking common encryption schemes.
“Our conclusion is there is a small but definite chance that RSA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29) and classic Diffie-Hellman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman) will not be usable for encryption purposes in four to five years,” said Stamos, referring to the two most commonly used encryption methods.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/
Alex Stamos, chief technology officer of the online security company Artemis (https://www.artemis.net/), led a presentation describing how he and three other security researchers studied recent publications from the insular world of academic cryptopgraphy research, which covers trends in attacking common encryption schemes.
“Our conclusion is there is a small but definite chance that RSA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28algorithm%29) and classic Diffie-Hellman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman) will not be usable for encryption purposes in four to five years,” said Stamos, referring to the two most commonly used encryption methods.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/