On Jan 2, 1997, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced they were interested in choosing a successor to the Data Encryption Standard (DES). Cryptographers consider an algorithm broken when there is a way to attack it that is faster that brute forcing all of the available keys. If you can't keep your keys or cleartext safe then it doesn't matter what encryption algorithm you use. The third way would be to get the key or the cleartext via some other method, like stealing the disk from the server that contains the key. The second approach requires exploiting some flaw in the encryption algorithm to eliminate large numbers of potential keys without actually having to try them.
The first way is to try all of the available encryption keys, knowing that one of them has to be the one that will expose the contents. Given those assumptions, there are three basic ways for an attacker to get the cleartext of an encrypted message. They also assume the encryption keys are random. So what does a break really mean?Ĭryptographers (those who practice the art and science of keeping messages secret) always assume that the attacker knows all the details of the encryption algorithm, like having the source code to the encryption software.
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I assumed he was talking about the Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES by Microsoft Research, a recently published break in the AES algorithm. I got an email this week from a well-intentioned colleague informing me that AES had been hacked and we should go find another encryption algorithm to use.
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