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New Discovery May Make Encryption 'Exponentially Easier' to Break

Posted August 17, 2013 3:54 PM

From ExtremeTech:

New research from MIT this week suggests that our trust in communications security may be based on false assumptions about the very nature of information.

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Re: New Discovery May Make Encryption 'Exponentially Easier' to Break

08/19/2013 12:30 PM

Seems to me this mostly applies to the trend of using phrases for passwords. A truly cryptic password not based on patterns (or sets) wouldn't be any easier to crack, from this analysis, AFAIK, but then I didn't go through the whole paper's analysis, step-by-step. Maybe someone else here can correct my thinking.
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