On 3/26/22, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> Yeah that's Rainbow, one of the NIST round 3 finalist signature schemes.
Scarier is that both past and present, many broken
cryptos have made it to the final rounds, and many
cryptos thought/won secure in past have been broken
or deprecated suspect. Which
Yeah that's Rainbow, one of the NIST round 3 finalist signature schemes.
Not too surprised it was broken, as it uses extension fields which I
have never trusted, they have too much (unused) structure.
Peter Fairbrother
On 26/03/2022 08:21, jim bell wrote:
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-03-24/using-just-a-laptop-an-encryption-code-designed-to-prevent-a-quantum-computer-attack-was-cracked-in-just-53-hours.html
Security in an age when quantum computing is about to explode is one of the
major concerns for all of the protection systems
