• sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m totally against anything proprietary. That’s the first requisite for anything I use. And I’m not advocating for proprietary algorithms at all, that would be very much the demise of encryption.

    I’m just worried that a sufficiently influent actor (let’s say a government) could theoretically bribe these institutions to promote weaker encryption standards. I’m not even saying they are trying to introduce backdoors, just that like the article suggest they might bias organizations to support weaker algorithms.

    AES 128 bits is still considered secure in public institutions, when modern computers can do much stronger encryption without being noticeable slower.

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      1 year ago

      A huge amount of organization are already biased and using weaker algorithms… They just do so under the obscurity of proprietary software so it’s much harder to scrutinize them.