And some fundamental "truths" about information entropy are even being
questioned:
http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/encryption-is-less-secure-than-we-thought-0814
And a "new" method offered for generating keys which is reputed to not
be vulnerable to brute-force attacks, based on coupled systems:
http://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011026
http://www.gizmag.com/human-biology-unbreakable-encryption/31504/
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/unbreakable_enc.html
It is a major PITA. Certificates on affected servers (which include
Amazon EC2 Linus servers) may have had their private keys exposed, so
certificates have to be reissued with different keys. This is,
apparently, a major bottleneck.
—Barry
On 9 Apr 2014, at 21:23, Owen Densmore wrote:
Worth knowing about:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/09/major-bug-called-heartbleed-exposes-data-across-the-internet/
Pretty serious crypto flaw.
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