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"Dropping support for a broken crypto primitive is hard in practiceRead more...
- but crypto can be broken overnight
- what do we do if SHA-1 or RSA falls tomorrow?"
Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Wegerr, "MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate", December 2008 -
"History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did."Read more...
Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks", 1997 -
“Business now relies on information infrastructures that are interlinked and interdependent… The way in which these hidden interdependencies pervade our everyday lives is staggering and, in some cases, may go unchecked for many years until an incident occurs that revels the true nature of the interdependences' impact.”Read more...
The British Government’s Technology Strategy Board, 2008
General semiconductor related papers
