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Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption

www.newscientist.com

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Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
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    Because they have the space. It’s hard for us Europeans to understand. In places where they don’t, they certainly go below ground - look at Microsoft’s parking garage in Redmond.

    • @master5o1@lemmy.nz
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      It’s an abundant resource curse; land is the resource that is wasted.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      So the question, then, is why build up at all. I’m guessing since this is the NSA lowering surface area for security was a factor.

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