vrighter comments on Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

our current public key encryption will be broken. symmetric encryption will be fine

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[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah but just think of all the work that needs redoing to the encryption systems around the world.

Also someone could intercept and save data that has been encrypted with our standard method now and wait for quantum computing to crack it

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[–] cantsurf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago

*NSA data centers have entered the chat *

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