A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials encryption

Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by pestatije on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:22PM (#26059810)

Apart from the obvious consequences for bitcoin, what other typical services would be disrupted by this?

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by creata on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:59PM (#26060009)

They claim that AES is (edit: "may be... in a few years") decipherable, and AES is used pretty much everywhere, so if they actually make a practical attack, then everything would be disrupted.

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Re:A Swiss company says it found weakness that imperials enc... by pestatije on Monday February 08, 2021 @05:46AM (#26062923)

Yes, everything. But, I mean, there's a difference between breaking into a vault and comms eavesdropping: one can be fixed, the other one not.

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