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Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption::Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If this is true, NSA might be shooting themselves in the foot when they inevitably have to deal with Russia and China.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just a guess, but I think they're less concerned about the giant country's surveillance of us, and more concerned about not being able to surveil the little terrorist cells.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

or you know conversations with your healthcare providers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

or the company VPNs of other continents.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

They probably consider that they overall lose more with strong cryptography, than the risk of other countries intercepting US communications. They must have other solutions in place to protect confident information. But they likely struggle with encryption being so widely used by anyone. Even granmas can now cover their communications without much effort