[Cryptography] Rumor has it that AES-256 is broken (again!)

[John Levine]

In article <CAOPE6Pi-BmXUdbrgCqkJFygmkMarzzYQrjcaTRq80G08TFAOkA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>http://yournewswire.com/encryption-security-may-not-be-secure-anymore/
>
>Sounds like total BS to me; like someone is being punked. I can't even
>find any evidence of the paper itself existing. Supposedly, the title
>of paper (from
>another link) is:
>
>    Factoring of Large Integers using Estimation of Weak Intermediate
>Key Points along a Quadratic Curve

The link in that article leads to what looks like a legit academic
conference in August:

http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/ACA2016/

The conference site doesn't have a list of papers, so we can assume
it's been submitted, but who knows if it's been accepted, or what.

R's,
John