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The Perils of Hacking Math
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2013-10-04 00:00
According to published reports, the National Security Agency has attempted to undermine mathematical formulas used in widely used encryption systems. They did it both by using advances made in secret by mathematicians on their payroll and by intentionally subverting commonly used security protocols by installing "backdoors" that make these protocols easier to break.
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