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A comment on Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019. Parent comment

Re:Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019 by jarfil on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:07AM (#20612777)
They have a kind of impossible task: to create an encryption standard that will resist attacks carried by supercomputers but will work on as cheap a piece of hardware as possible... and let's make it backwards compatible too.

At some point they have to compromise, and security suffers.

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Re:Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019 by michaelt on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:04AM (#20614294)
Isn't "create an encryption standard that will resist attacks by supercomputers but will work on as cheap a piece of hardware as possible" the aim of pretty much every encryption standard ever?

I don't deny it's a big challenge - but it's hardly a unique one.

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Re:Pwnie Award Nominations for 2019 by nothrabannosir on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:47AM (#20615067)
I really would hope any sane encryption standard aims to satisfy this requirement. Otherwise why have encryption? Supercomputers are at any tom dick and harry's beck and call these days for a paltry fee.
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