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Boffins from Microsoft and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium have cracked the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm.
AES is used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications so breaking the system is bad news for anything dependant on it.
Their method can recover an AES secret key from three to five times faster than previously thought possible and do not need to assume related-keys.
"Most of our attacks only need a very small part of the codebook and have small memory requirements, and are practically verified to a large extent. As our attacks are of high computational complexity, they do not threaten the practical use of AES in any way," the report said. More
