CHINESE RESEARCHERS FIND A POTENTIAL QUANTUM ATTACK ON CLASSICAL ENCRYPTION

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

A group of researchers have published a paper detailing a new attack using commercial D-wave quantum annealing systems. The attack targets Substitution-Permutation Network structured algorithms, which are at the heart of the AES encryption standards. The report was limited to targeting a 22-bit key though, which is much smaller than those commonly used.