Thermodynamics
Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability in the Android operating system that researchers say could generate serious security glitches on hundreds of thousands of end user apps, many of them used to make Bitcoin transactions.
(via Ars Technica)
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
– Robert Coveyou, Studies in Applied Mathematics, III (1970)
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on December 22, 2013