Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more
Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more
There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3115044
Oh no.
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im honestly not really surprised anymore. i fully expect to see a lot more of these types of bugs in the coming years
Just wait for quantum computers to take off, our current encryption can be broken with them
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 *
absolutely. a lot of currently in use public key schemes may be broken with those. more recently there have been a few newer algorithm such as kyber that do have a chance to hold. think NIST is also holding a bit of a competition, but dont quote me on that. i really dont know alot about post-quantum crypto
I'll see your quantum computers and raise you electronic analog computers.