There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss.
  • vrighter
    5·
    11 months ago

    our current public key encryption will be broken. symmetric encryption will be fine

    • Weslee@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yeah but just think of all the work that needs redoing to the encryption systems around the world.

      Also someone could intercept and save data that has been encrypted with our standard method now and wait for quantum computing to crack it