Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
Nature Podcast
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Most commonly used blic key exchange algoritm was r s a, named after its inventors. But internet has been transitioning away from r s a which is vulnerable even to quantum attacks. In 20 eighten, the internet engineering task force endorsed new system called elliptic curve cryptography. This technique is faster and more secure than r s a. All sorts of devices from mobile phones to cars use public key inscription to connect to the internet.
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