Cryptographer says existing public-key encryption algorithms have a 15% probability of functional failure
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Cryptographer Matthew Green says he believes there is a 1% probability that humans live in a Minicrypt world, and a 15% probability of functionally losing confidence in existing public-key encryption algorithms.
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Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence in our existing public-key encryption algorithms.