A mathematician working with NIST on new encryption algorithms to deal with the impact of quantum computing has issued a statement that the NSA is likely working behind the scenes to sabotage this effort.
Specifically, he believes that the NSA is encouraging the developers of the new encryption methods to include back doors..
This is kind of what the NSA does. They don't care about user safety or security, they want to be able to read everything:
A prominent cryptography expert has told New Scientist that a US spy agency could be weakening a new generation of algorithms designed to protect against hackers equipped with quantum computers.
Daniel Bernstein at the University of Illinois Chicago says that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is deliberately obscuring the level of involvement the US National Security Agency (NSA) has in developing new encryption standards for “post-quantum cryptography” (PQC). He also believes that NIST has made errors – either accidental or deliberate – in calculations describing the security of the new standards. NIST denies the claims.
“NIST isn’t following procedures designed to stop NSA from weakening PQC,” says Bernstein. “People choosing cryptographic standards should be transparently and verifiably following clear public rules so that we don’t need to worry about their motivations. NIST promised transparency and then claimed it had shown all its work, but that claim simply isn’t true.”
The mathematical problems we use to protect data are practically impossible for even the largest supercomputers to crack today. But when quantum computers become reliable and powerful enough, they will be able to break them in moments.
This is why people should be working on methods independent of any funding from or management any government entity of any government.
The spooks will sabotage any such efforts. (I'm looking at you, Tor)
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