A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials encryption

Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by pmontra on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:39PM (#26059277)

s/imperials/imperils/ in the title

And tldr: they claim to have found ways to use quantum computers to compromise encryption algorithms but they didn't publish anything yet.

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by sterlind on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:00PM (#26059672)

Specifically it looks like they're claiming that AES can be efficiently cracked with quantum annealing.

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by craftinator on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:16PM (#26060375)

How revolutionary...

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by sterlind on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:21PM (#26060749)

...it actually is, if it's true. most quantum-resistant crypto has focused on public-key cryptography. and quantum annealing is much nearer-term than regular quantum computing, that's the kind of machines that D-Wave is building and selling today.

it would be extraordinarily disruptive if this turns out to not be empty hype.

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by perl4ever on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:12PM (#26060083)

If you have a way of cracking meaningful encryption, you don't have to publish anything about how you did it, you just demonstrate that you can decrypt something.

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by henriquez on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:13PM (#26059450)

Maybe they’re too busy taking all the bitcoinz?

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