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Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption::Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process
True encryption does exist, it’s just that the encryption key is equally as long as the message itself which shows how impractical it is: if you have a method secure enough to send an encryption key of length X, why not just send the actual message of length X?
That’s interesting. I’ve never heard that before. Do you have more information I can read about somewhere?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
Is that what they’re talking about?