Fujitsu Cracks ‘Next Generation’ Encryption Standard in 148 Days

June 19th, 2012

Via: Tech Week Europe:

Fujitsu Laboratories said on Monday it has successfully cracked a next-generation cryptography standard known as pairing-based cryptography, breaking a world record.

Fujitsu and its partners, Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Kyushu University, took 148.2 days to carry out a cryptanalysis of the 278-digit (923-bit) pairing-based cryptography, a task that had been thought to require several hundred thousand years.

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One Response to “Fujitsu Cracks ‘Next Generation’ Encryption Standard in 148 Days”

  1. erth2karin says:
    June 19, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    Ah, I think I see their mistake.
    It’s similar to the Mars Orbiter snafu – they forgot to convert from AI to Human.

    To the best of my calculations, several hundred thousand AI years = ~148 days.
    ^_^

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