[Wikimedia-l] Another example of encryption FUD

[James Salsman]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517781/math-advances-raise-the-prospect-of-an-internet-security-crisis/
is another example of a very highly placed secondary news source casting
fear, uncertainty, and doubt on the value of industry-standard encryption
practices which is not only based on the unchecked alleged reliability mere
primary sources, but on such sources who willingly refer to themselves as
"black hats," meaning malicious actors.

That is preposterousness.

Elliptic curve-based cryptography is profoundly secure and has been
considered such ever since it came into vogue in the 1980s and well before
its predecessors were exposed as flawed.

Although some mathematicians have suggested that they are not completely
invulnerable to advances in quantum computing, the discrete logarithm
problem and elliptic curve-based trapdoor functions are both completely
impenetrable to any currently known applications of qubit-based attacks.

Shame on those who promulgate such FUD.