Security from Spiritual Hackers
by Free Government Information Our Government assures us that encryption safeguards our sensitive digital information – bank details, medical records, and everything in between – the same technology used for top-secret government communications. This protection relies on complex mathematical algorithms and key sizes, such as 128-bit or 256-bit, where the number of possible decryption keys grows exponentially with each added bit, theoretically making unauthorized access incredibly difficult. But is it Protection? You see, the best protection remains secrecy, and what is often overlooked is that even with significant mathematical complexity, encryption based on a linear algorithmic foundation isn't an absolute guarantee against future decryption by sufficiently advanced computing.. Today's quantum computing capabilities demonstrate this potential, indicating that nothing we are using today offers absolute, long-term protection. CBS's Numbers S2:E8 This vulnerability isn...