New Research may make breaking Encryption easier

We depend a lot on encryption to prevent access to sensitive data in the belief that the techniques used make it not worthwhile for hackers to get at data.
New research done at MIT has disquieting portends.
Let us keep fingers crossed.

<a href="https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164050-discovery-may-make-encryption-exponentially-easier-to-break?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fextremetech+%28Extremetech%29" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New discovery may make encryption ‘exponentially easier’ to break | ExtremeTech</a>