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• NotAGamer@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Encryption can be hack you nutter.

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  • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alright I’ll bite. Tell me how exactly you “hack” encryption :)

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    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are several ways. There could be a vulnerability in one of the underlying algorithms, in the crypto system, or in the implementation.

      I’m not saying signal isn’t secure, but encryption can absolutely be hacked.

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      • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The point of my comment was not to say it couldn’t, it was to see if the OP of the comment knew anything about what they were talking about or if they were just spreading FUD. I know that it could happen, but saying that because it could happen means it did happen is a fools argument that I was curious to see what the response would be.

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        only known method of hacking encryption

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• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be surprised if someday in the next thousand years someone figures out how to reverse the SHA256 hash function or something. (And I know there’s an infinite number of possible theoretical inputs that can result in the same hash, but maybe they’d just pick the shortest or something)

  RSA seemed pretty strong until shors algorithm and all the other quantum nonsense came around, and I don’t think they’ve got enough quantum computers yet to render it powerless, but its also not unreasonable to think that eventually all modern encryption will be obsolete

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