"The Internet and many forms of online commerce and communication that depend on it, may be on the brink of a "cryptopalypse" resulting from the collapse of decades-old methods of shared encryption.
The result would be "almost total failure of trust in the Internet," said four researchers who gave a presentation.....At the heart of the impending "cryptopalypse" are the Diffie-Hellman and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) shared encryption algorithms, which were independently developed, respectively, at Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s.
Both algorithms are on the verge of being "cracked" — proven to be vulnerable to attack — by academic mathematicians.
"There is a small but real chance that both RSA and Diffie-Hellman will soon become unusable," said the presenters....The Diffie-Hellman and RSA algorithms underlie many of the authentication and verification standards on the Internet.
Once mathematicians crack an encryption algorithm, the presenters said, it isn't long before security researchers and hackers apply the breakthroughs to the real world." LiveScience
What if our cyberspace world collapsed? What would that, at least temporarily, do to the global economy? I'm not saying this is going to happen or will be part of the time of trouble if it does happen. Rather, just one more thing to think about as it relates to that topic......
....and there shall be a time of trouble,
such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:
Daniel 12:1
The result would be "almost total failure of trust in the Internet," said four researchers who gave a presentation.....At the heart of the impending "cryptopalypse" are the Diffie-Hellman and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) shared encryption algorithms, which were independently developed, respectively, at Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s.
Both algorithms are on the verge of being "cracked" — proven to be vulnerable to attack — by academic mathematicians.
"There is a small but real chance that both RSA and Diffie-Hellman will soon become unusable," said the presenters....The Diffie-Hellman and RSA algorithms underlie many of the authentication and verification standards on the Internet.
Once mathematicians crack an encryption algorithm, the presenters said, it isn't long before security researchers and hackers apply the breakthroughs to the real world." LiveScience
What if our cyberspace world collapsed? What would that, at least temporarily, do to the global economy? I'm not saying this is going to happen or will be part of the time of trouble if it does happen. Rather, just one more thing to think about as it relates to that topic......
....and there shall be a time of trouble,
such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:
Daniel 12:1
