Breakthrough poses a ‘real and substantial threat’ to password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, team says.
  • Terrasque@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    In many cases the key exchange (kex) for symmetric ciphers are done using slower asymmetric ciphers. Many of which are vulnerable to quantum algos to various degrees.

    So even when attacking AES you’d ideally do it indirectly by targeting the kex.