“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
To stay ahead of the quantum computer threat, cryptographers around the world have spent the past two decades designing postquantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms. These are based on new mathematical problems that both quantum and classical computers find difficult to solve.
Hasnain says:
The fact that they did it on a 10 year old computer is glorious.
“One reason SIKE’s vulnerability was not detected until now was because the new attack “applies very advanced mathematics—I can’t think of another situation where an attack has used such deep mathematics compared with the system being broken,” says Galbraith. Katz agrees, saying, “I suspect that fewer than 50 people in the world understand both the underlying mathematics and the necessary cryptography.””
Posted on 2022-08-19T19:30:49+0000