[Cryptography] On the importance of theoretical attacks

[Salz, Rich]

Quoted with permission:
"Nothing better than the history of TLS to show that one better take seriously attacks that seem theoretical at first glance."
-- Hugo Krawczyk <hugo at ee.technion.ac.il>

Summarized from a public talk by Kenny Patterson:
                Academics have woken up to the importance of TLS, it gets more attention, begets more research and attacks; this is a virtuous cycle. In pragmatic terms, you'll standardize it and then we'll try to break it.

                /r$

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Principal Security Engineer
Akamai Technology
Cambridge, MA


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