Well no. I built a password cracking system as part of my University course, it was not very powerful and passwords beyond five characters took forever t crack, but it proved the point. The threat of quantum computing password cracking is out there on the horizon somewhere. That brings us …
Breaking encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of our security and privacy online. Without it you could not shop online using your credit card or have a private conversation. Encryption is is encoding of your information using computational methods – the more complicated the computations the more secure the encryption is. But …
Our future encrypted security – the new algorithm needs more work
The US The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has risen to the challenge of finding the encryption we will need when quantum (or just really capable) computers are developed in the future. After a strenuous vetting period they found four contenders to work with: NIST Announces First Four …
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What is a cryptopocalypse?
We have come a long way in cryptography and computing since the Colossus electronic computer, (above), was built at Bletchley Park, during the Second World War, to break the Lorenz cipher. With the advances in computing technology, there is a foreseeable point in the future, possibly only ten years, when …
Quantum computers – it is never too early to have a plan
A simple explanation of what a quantum computer is, without going into quantum states, parallel universes and super position, is that they will be computers that will exponentially expand our computing power beyond todays classical computers. A quantum computer is not a general purpose computer but a computing device. Quantum …
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Quantum Computers breaking encryption – No time soon…
As I have said before the prospect of incredibly powerful quantum computers, that could break the encryption that we all currently depend on, was a hot subject of discussion during my Masters course. But as Bruce Schneier shows us today it is along way in the future. Breaking 256-bit Elliptic …
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First a pandemic now an apocalypse! Click bait but worth a read!
The development of quantum computers and the subsequent evaporation of the effectiveness of current cybersecurity algorithms, encryption and software was an often discussed topic during my cybersecurity MSc. But there is no point in being scared by the prospect – but you should be informed – so read this. What …
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