How A 1200-Year-Old Hacking Technique Can Already Crack Tomorrow’s Encrypted Vaults

In the ninth century, ‘The Philosopher of the Arabs’ Al-Kindi came up with what was believed to be the first crypto cracking technique ever documented. It still works today on systems assumed to be a holy grail of security, according to a Microsoft researcher.

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