[Cryptography] Intel experimental tool....

[Brian M. Waters]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:46:18 -0700
Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> wrote:
> If Cryptography code can be reduced in complexity yet return the same
> result then the resulting code might present a model that is easier to
> attack than the author of the code or crypto model/standard might
> think.
> 
> With modern large clusters the logic of some decryption/ encryption
> pairs might be proved fragile especially if it can be reduced to FPGA
> logic gates.

I'm not sure I follow. Breaking modern cryptography is hard
(computationally hard), as far as anyone can tell. This is independent
of implementation issues like optimization or FPGA/ASIC-ization.

BMW

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