Friday, August 02, 2013

Crypto experts issue a call to arms to avert the cryptopocalypse

Crypto experts issue a call to arms to avert the cryptopocalypse "At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a quartet of researchers, Alex Stamos, Tom Ritter, Thomas Ptacek, and Javed Samuel, implored everyone involved in cryptography, from software developers to certificate authorities to companies buying SSL certificates, to switch to newer algorithms and protocols, lest they wake up one day to find that all of their crypto infrastructure is rendered useless and insecure by mathematical advances."

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