 | If the 4chan leak is true, then the narrative starts to form: In 2008, NSA, its mathematicians, together with a group of students, tried to break encryption. One of the resulting projects from that collaboration was project Tundra, and it created a new technique that would help with breaking encryption, called Tau statistic. Q-Star used the described Tau analysis technique, improved upon it, to break AES-192 encryption. Building on top of the work that was previously done. Why it's important. Project Tundra and Tau statistic, are very obscure topics on the internet. If you google them, you only find a couple of links, mostly from 2014. If the leak is fake, the author had to dig really deep and research his stuff, to keep consistent with very obscure information. I think if it really was a troll, they would simply not have found and integrated this information at all. It also makes sense that Q* broke encryption, by contributing to already existing methods and research, building on top of it. Instead of doing so completely by itself. Source for the NSA claim: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html The article about it. The classified document itself. https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/media/411ee8b9-0001-0014-0000-000000035550/media-35550.pdf [link] [comments] |
Predictive technology: computational social science
