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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] venoft@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Before, elliptical curve encryption has been hailed as the new golden standard, only too bad there is a serious weakness where if you know the seed you can crack the code. And guess who has the seed? Starts with N and ends with SA.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goddamn NASA and their meddling!

[–] red_one@lemmy.probabilitydegeneration.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Curve25519 should be fine.