Knapp dreieinhalb Jahre nachdem Google den US-Robotikkonzern Boston Dynamics gekauft hat, stößt die Google-Mutter Alphabet das Unternehmen nun wieder ab. Die japanische Softbank-Gruppe kauft Boston Dynamics nach eigenen Angaben, ohne weitere Details zu benennen.
1. Cybersecurity is terrible, and will get worse.
2. The Internet of Things will be a security disaster.
3. Cyber warfare will be the norm rather than the exception in conflicts.
4. RC4 and SHA-1 will be phased out while AES and SHA-2/3 will remain secure (he expects a SHA-1 collision within the year)
5. Improved factoring and DL algorithns will be found requiring key sizes beyond 2048 (he feels it will not be a fully polynomial algorithm; 4096 should be OK).
6. Elliptic curves will fall out of favour (there’s a very strange current situation with the NSA moving away from it with no explanation).
7. Research will still pour into quantum crypto and quantum computing, as the physics community is geared up to accept large amounts of government money.
8. But there will be no full size quantum computers capable of factoring RSA keys.
9. No-one will use quantum crypto.
10. Governments will not tolerate anonymity.
11. Most people will not demand or expect real privacy; that war is already lost.
12. Tools to fight cybercrime and attacks will further diminish privacy.
13. Bitcoin will fade away but leave a legacy
14. Blockchain will be hyped, but succeed only in limited circumstances.
15. An endless stream of new payment mechanisms will be presented at future Financial Crypto conferences.
The post-Snowden era has seen a surge of interest in end-to-end encrypted communications as a technical safeguard against mass surveillance. This talk will survey the modern landscape of tools available and discuss challenges in technical and social challenges to widespread end-to-end encrypted communications. The talk will build on the speaker’s experience working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to promote secure messaging tools and explain their properties to the public, as well as his technical work developing the CONIKS protocol for distributing keys.
Speaker Abstract and Bio can be found here.
