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New attack against AES? - The Tau statistic: From the Spiegel article: "Electronic codebooks, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, are both widely used an
by combrinator 12y ago
New attack against AES? - The Tau statistic:
From the Spiegel article:
"Electronic codebooks, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, are both widely used and difficult to attack cryptanalytically. The NSA has only a handful of in-house techniques. The TUNDRA project investigated a potentially new technique -- the Tau statistic -- to determine its usefulness in codebook analysis."
- lstamour 12y agoRelated: https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/549328365422145537 https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/549328365422145537 And: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/12/that-spiegel-nsa-story-is-nonsense.html http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/12/that-spiegel-nsa-story-is-... Which isn't to say the NSA isn't legitimately participating in IETF and taking such notes ... but that codenames can be taken out of context. ;-)