Quantum-Safe Security

  • 1.  Thoughts? AI helps crack NIST recommended post quantum encryption algorithm

    Posted Feb 21, 2023 01:05:00 PM

    A board member brought this article to my attention.  It appears AI has cracked the NIST-recommended Post Quantum algorithms. Would love to hear y'alls thoughts on this news.

    https://www.securityweek.com/ai-helps-crack-a-nist-recommended-post-quantum-encryption-algorithm/



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    Hillary Baron
    Sr Technical Director
    CSA
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  • 2.  RE: Thoughts? AI helps crack NIST recommended post quantum encryption algorithm

    Posted Feb 22, 2023 08:51:00 AM

    Hi Hillary,

    I'd agree with Bas Westerbaan (and others) here https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/w4o-VCza_so/m/QAC5oexBAgAJ. It is a nice paper, but as I understand the paper, they found an implementation flaw, not a conceptual flaw. This is why we have the warning in the code repositories stating that using the PQC implementations to protect sensitive data in production environments is currently not considered secure. 

    BR

    Andreas



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    Andreas Baeuml M.Sc. IT-Security, CCSK, AWS CCP
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