Military Grade Cryptography Cracked? No!

There’s a big difference between someone hacking something, and someone cracking something

Don’t you just love cybersecurity when you wake up to see that something you thought was ultra-secure, perhaps is not [here]:

I am sorry to say, that this is just click-bate!

The main reason that there is unlikely to be a major advancement on breaking cryptography, is the number of limited number of qubits in we can used at the current time. Peter Shor outlined a method that could break our existing discrete log and integer factorisation problems and thus showed that RSA and ECC could be broken with enough qubits. Luv Grover then showed that it should be possible to build a massive table of symmetric keys and then try each of these at the same time.

Overall, it is a rather strange article. It initially starts to talk about the breaking of symmetric key methods and then moves onto RSA cracking. It outlines that the quantum device has been used as an attack on the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) part of a symmetric key methods. Overall an SPN is used in many symmetric key…