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Jokes aside, let's say someone does figure out how to break RSA over a weekend project. The evil options are easy to come up with, but what is the actually resp
by fouronnes3 10mo ago
Jokes aside, let's say someone does figure out how to break RSA over a weekend project. The evil options are easy to come up with, but what is the actually responsible, ethical, thing to do? Never tell anyone?
- zoky 10mo agoContact a known and trusted security researcher who can verify to the world that you did what you said you did, so everyone else can have as much time as possible to figure out exactly how fucked they are. Doing nothing isn’t an option; once someone figures something like that out, it signifies that conditions were ripe for the discovery to be made, and it’s only a matter of time before it’s discovered again independently.
- dizhn 10mo agoAlso fairly reasonable to assume it has already been done by someone who had a motive to break it and is keeping quiet.
- sroerick 10mo agoPretend you had developed a quantum computing advancement and push people to post quantum encryption
- anonymousiam 10mo agoMigrating to post quantum encryption is important, but it's also important to not be herded into a "solution" that can be/has been easily compromised. https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html