AES encryption is cracked

Cryptography researches Andrey Bogdanov (K.U.Leuven — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dmitry Khovratovich, (Microsoft Research) and Christian Rechberger (ENS Paris) managed to find a weakness in AES encryption that now makes the security protocol 4x easier/faster to crack.

"To put this into perspective: on a trillion machines, that each could test a billion keys per second, it would take more than two billion years to recover an AES-128 key," the Leuven University researcher said. "Because of these huge complexities, the attack has no practical implications on the security of user data."

"Indeed, we are even not close to a practical break of AES at the moment. However, our results do shed some light into the internal structure of AES and indicate where some limits of the AES design are," Bogdanov added.

According to the researchers, the crack works on all versions of AES and dispelled some myths about the technology as well. The crack has already been seen and confirmed by AES creators Dr Joan Daemen and Professor Dr Vincent Rijmen.

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