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TLDR: Bloch doubts that the failure of the uniformity assumption means that cryptographic systems in wide use today are fundamentally insecure. “My guess is tha
by signed0 13y ago
TLDR: Bloch doubts that the failure of the uniformity assumption means that cryptographic systems in wide use today are fundamentally insecure. “My guess is that it will show that some of them are slightly less secure than we had hoped, but usually in the process, we’ll also figure out a way of patching them.”
- conformal 13y agothe article title is a total troll, thx mit. for a real world example of failed uniformity assumptions, see cryptocat.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoHow is "Less secure than we thought" a troll title, given that the article is about how one of the fundamental assumptions of cryptography is less secure than we thought? It doesn't say insecure.
- pessimizer 13y agoMaybe he's looking for "Possibly Encryption Might be Somewhat Less Secure Than We Personally May or May Not Have Thought At One Time, Technically."
- moocowduckquack 13y agoHmm, seems a bit less snappy, somehow.
- tjoff 13y agoThey make it sound like patching will alleviate the problem but patching is not a solution for a lot of use cases (where it is unfeasible to redo the encryption or when the NSA already has the ciphertext). (not that "slightly less secure than we had hoped" is enough reason to panic.)