First flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard used for internet banking identified
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 11:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm used worldwide to protect internet banking, wireless communications, and data on hard disks. They managed to come up with a clever new attack that can recover the secret key four times easier than anticipated by experts. However the attack has no practical implications on the security of user data due to various complexities.