AES encryption vulnerable to attack

ID: IRCNE2011081223
Date: 2011-08-20

According to "techworld", researchers from Microsoft and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications.
The attack can recover an AES secret key three to five times faster than previously thought possible, reported the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, a research university based in Belgium.
The researchers caution that the attack is complex in nature, and so can not be easily carried out using existing technologies.
Though unwieldy to execute, the attack can be applied to all versions of AES. The creators of AES, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen have acknowledged the validity of the attack.