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> A Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption and of course there are no links to anyone actually saying this. There are links to stock quo
by colpabar 6y ago
> A Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption
and of course there are no links to anyone actually saying this. There are links to stock quotes, to the definition of a hash function, to people in the same field but different companies. But _of course_ there is nowhere for me to go and read what was actually said.
This is off topic, but I would LOVE to make it a requirement that for any article with a headline like "X claims Y" to put a link to X saying Y as the first item. I really don't care what bloomberg has to say about quantum computing.
edit: there's a bit more info here[1], but still no links to any source for the statement of any kind.
> They Terra Quantum discovered a weakness on the message-digest algorithm MD5. The Terra Quantum team found that one can crack an algorithm using a quantum annealer containing about 20,000 qubits. No such annealer exists today, and while it is impossible to predict when it may be created, it is conceivable that such an annealer could become available to hackers in the future.
I think there's a reason the only hits I get for this are business journals.
[1]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210208005290/en/Terra-Quantum-Makes-Electronically-Transmitted-Communications-Unbreakable-After-Revealing-Weakness-in-%E2%80%98post-quantum-Cryptography%E2%80%99 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210208005290/en/Ter...
- chapium 6y agoThey discovered an attack on part of AES. Article is light on details, but this is not the end of crypto algorithms as the article implies.
- tchalla 6y agoIt's really not off topic. It's incredibly common these days and extremely annoying that news articles do not link to the source. I don't see why it is difficult and should be done.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoNews sites want to keep you on their site, where you can be exposed to their advertising. Providing a link to the source would take you away from their site.
- tppiotrowski 6y agoNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- saganus 6y agoI'm tempted to start using a modified version that reads: "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ad revenue"
- colpabar 6y agoAfter some quick searching, I am not sure there is any source that can be linked. Their website doesn't have anything, and they don't seem to have any social media.
- DennisP 6y agoBloomberg references interviews with the CEO and CTO of the company. Since they're a major news outlet, it seems likely it was Bloomberg reporters who did those interviews. There's no link to a source because they are the primary source for those quotes. Your link is to BusinessWire, which publishes company press releases, so apparently the company is officially making this claim. Edit: their LinkedIn page posted a link to the Bloomberg article, so they seem to be satisfied that they were quoted accurately: https://www.linkedin.com/company/terra-quantum-ag/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/terra-quantum-ag/