{"id":151025,"date":"2022-11-24T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/decades-old-math-theorem-cracks-us-government-encryption-algorithm"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:24:43","slug":"decades-old-math-theorem-cracks-us-government-encryption-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/decades-old-math-theorem-cracks-us-government-encryption-algorithm","title":{"rendered":"Decades-old math theorem cracks US government encryption algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decades-old-math-theorem-cracks-us-government-encryption-algorithm3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The information security landscape is rapidly changing in response to quantum computing technology, which is capable of cracking modern encryption techniques in minutes, but a promising US government encryption algorithm for the post-quantum world was just cracked in less than an hour thanks to a decades-old math theorem.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2022, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) chose a set of encryption algorithms that it hoped would stand up to the encryption-cracking power of quantum computers and tasked researchers with probing them for vulnerabilities, offering a $50,000 prize for anyone who was able to break the encryption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The information security landscape is rapidly changing in response to quantum computing technology, which is capable of cracking modern encryption techniques in minutes, but a promising US government encryption algorithm for the post-quantum world was just cracked in less than an hour thanks to a decades-old math theorem. In July 2022, the US National Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1490,41,2229,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-government","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}