Cryptography researches Andrey Bogdanov (K.U.Leuven — Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dmitry Khovratovich, (Microsoft Research) and Christian Rechberger (ENS Paris) managed to find a weakness in AES encryption that now makes the security protocol 4x easier/faster to crack. The crack has already been seen and confirmed by AES creators Dr Joan Daemen and Professor Dr Vincent Rijmen. Seeing as how AES-128 specifically is one of the more widely used, secure systems the...
