New Research Cracks AES Keys 3-5x Faster

Posted by Unknown on Thursday August 18, 2011 @12:53PM from the before-the-heat-death-of-the-universe dept.

Landing his first accepted submission, qpgmr writes "AES, generally thought to be the gold standard for encryption, is showing weaknesses. From Computerworld: 'Researchers from Microsoft and the [Belgian] Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard, the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications.'" The full paper has lots of details. Note that it would still take a few billion years with current computers to actually break anything, but there may be further vunerabilities yet to be discovered.

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That's some mighty fine print you got there... by geekmux · 2011-08-18 13:06 · Score: 4, Interesting

"New Research Cracks AES Keys 3-5x Faster"
(the fine print)

"it would still take a few billion years with current computers to actually break anything.."
1. Re:That's some mighty fine print you got there... by FuzzyDaddy · 2011-08-18 13:17 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Or "New attack reduces 256 bit key strength by two bits"
  
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