Encryption is less secure than we thought

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 07:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Information theory—the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression—also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the paper that created information theory first appeared, most information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have depended on a common assumption.

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