January 28, 2023 | The National Interest
If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us?
Assuming the math works (which it doesn’t), why would China sacrifice significant strategic advantage for academic bragging rights?
January 28, 2023 | The National Interest
If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us?
Assuming the math works (which it doesn’t), why would China sacrifice significant strategic advantage for academic bragging rights?
When Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States immediately published a paper announcing the achievement. Instead, they kept it to themselves so they could keep reading Nazi messages encrypted using Engima machines. Last month, in contrast, Chinese academics from government-run laboratories and research organizations published a paper claiming to have developed a new mathematical strategy to break RSA encryption, today’s standard.