What the United States will do with cryptography
The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
The United States is preparing new encryption standards that will be so armored that no one will be able to bypass them.
These new standards will serve to avoid so-called backdoors within a system, which allow the exploitation of flaws within the cryptography. For example, an encryption algorithm that was developed by the National Security Agency was abandoned in 2014 because it was discovered.
To achieve this, the NSA is trying to get to quantum computing. While waiting for the latter to materialize, a competition has been launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, which aims to update the algorithms that underlie widespread public key cryptography that protects e-mail. , online banking, medical records, access to control systems developed in the 70s, allows the private exchange of information.
On the other hand, it is no coincidence that the current US administration has presented a plan to protect national security within the context of quantum cryptography by 2035. Several times on these pages we have stressed the importance of quantum computing both in civil and military fields. Competition in technology to achieve or maintain global hegemony between nations has always been through technology. It is no coincidence that China is investing billions of dollars in the development of quantum computing.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/stati-uniti-crittografia/ on Tue, 17 May 2022 05:49:02 +0000.