Researchers Figure Out How To Put Invisible Backdoor In Common Internet Encryption

Read the full article at consumerist.com.

“Encryption is, basically, a giant math problem: a set of numbers and a set of rules for what to do with them. Researchers have discovered a way to basically tunnel through or end-run around the process by putting in a number that makes the rules — usually hidden — visible. And when you know the rules the math problem is working with, you can break through it.

An encrypted communication that has this “trapdoor” in it is about 10,000 times easier to solve than one without, Ars explains. That puts access to files encrypted this way within reach for anyone with access to a big enough bank of processing power… like, say, the NSA.”

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