Cryptogram: AES Broken?

Posted by chrisd on Monday September 16, 2002 @12:42AM from the small-s-boxes-lead-to-weirdness dept.

bcrowell writes "The latest CryptoGram reports that AES (Rijndael) and Serpent may have been broken. The good news is that when cryptographers say 'broken' they don't necessarily mean broken in a way that is practical to exploit right now. Still, maybe we need to assume that any given type of crypto is only temporary. All of cryptography depends on a small number of problems that are believed to be hard. And all bets are definitely off when quantum computers arrive on the scene. Maybe someday we'll look back fondly on the golden age of privacy."

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Re:What Schneier really meant to say... by BigBadBri · 2002-09-16 01:45 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It means that your lovely intelligent children will never be exposed to his intelligent and reasoned analysis of cryptographic issues - but then your offspring probably wouldn't be able to absorb such complex ideas, given your obvious stupidity. You obviously don't mind your name being censored, since you choose to post anonymously. Arsehole.

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