Stefen Auris@pawb.socialM to Furry Technologists@pawb.social · 11 months agoIntel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much morewww.pcworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: theandrocollection@lemm.eetechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkIntel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much morewww.pcworld.comStefen Auris@pawb.socialM to Furry Technologists@pawb.social · 11 months agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: theandrocollection@lemm.eetechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoour current public key encryption will be broken. symmetric encryption will be fine
minus-squareWeslee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoYeah but just think of all the work that needs redoing to the encryption systems around the world. Also someone could intercept and save data that has been encrypted with our standard method now and wait for quantum computing to crack it
minus-squarecantsurf@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months ago*NSA data centers have entered the chat *
our current public key encryption will be broken. symmetric encryption will be fine
Yeah but just think of all the work that needs redoing to the encryption systems around the world.
Also someone could intercept and save data that has been encrypted with our standard method now and wait for quantum computing to crack it
*NSA data centers have entered the chat *