Monday, September 5, 2011

Researchers identify first flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard

From Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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A flaw in the AES sounds pretty scary, given that most of our online banking and other 'secure' network transactions rely on AES. But note the repercussions (esp. those of you who have been in Data Structures and Algorithms):
"To put this into perspective: on a trillion machines, that each could test a billion keys per second, it would take more than two billion years to recover an AES-128 key."
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