Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 08:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —A protocol based on "discrete logarithms", deemed as one of the candidates for the Internet's future security systems, was decrypted by EPFL researchers. Allegedly tamper-proof, it could only stand up to the school machines' decryption attempts for two hours.