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Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption
(www.newscientist.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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There is still a quantum attack against symmetric key crypto like AES, but it just reduces the effective key size by half. If you use long enough keys (256 bits) you're still fine.