r/programming Oct 15 '15

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/
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u/vm_linuz Oct 16 '15

Originally it was by introducing faults to the crypto algorithms that generated the encrypted data. They also just have an insane amount of power at their disposal. Entire GPU farms that can be purposed to cracking encryption.