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I know that thinking, but learning more about RSA, I came to realize that there's a flipside of this. People think "RSA is easy", because someone gave them a l
by hannob 3y ago
I know that thinking, but learning more about RSA, I came to realize that there's a flipside of this.
People think "RSA is easy", because someone gave them a lecture of a simplified/wrong/insecure version of RSA. Pretty much all "simple introductions to RSA" you can find out there are wrong.
The truth is: RSA isn't that simple. If you want to have RSA, and want to have it secure, there's a whole bunch of things to consider. But RSA looks simple.
So lots of people go ahead and implement their RSA. And then you end up with, hey, I can break almost a third of the top 100 webpage's RSA implementations. (I'm not kidding, I did that -> https://robotattack.org/ https://robotattack.org/ .)
I think the fact that crystals-kyber is obviously not that simple may actually protect us. Because hopefully most peopple will end up using some hopefully well audited optimized free implementation, because they won't even have the idea that they could do this on their own.
- randall 3y agoI love that security by difficulty is the new security by obscurity, but actually secure.
- jmprspret 3y agoIs it new? Security by difficulty _is_ security.
- vmfunction 3y agoYeah talking about difficulty, then you will love this: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-quantum-sate... If we really wanna be security, then entailment is a good bet. I could imagine essential financial clearing, emergency infrastructure could use this level security. Don't know how feasible it is for consumer grade usage yet though.
- pauby 3y agoPeople rolling their own crypto still makes my jaw drop. I get people want something custom but the tradeoffs are just too great.