Chapter 66: Vulnerabilities

Seeing that he was so fast, Yan An didn't want to say any more.

He doesn't want to engage in interpersonal relationships, and he's not stupid.

can scold Xiao Jing, that's because he makes himself unhappy and they have to ask for themselves.

Even if he scolded, there was only one way to let Xiao Jing swallow his anger, or in order to avoid the two from arguing again, he directly recalled Xiao Jing to Liangxi.

But Gao Shenghan is different, it is expected that he will be the deputy head of the company for a long time in the future, and he will work with him for a long time.

Either a big fight with him, and then a direct substitution.

Either ignore it directly, and if you can't argue, the matter will naturally pass.

If you quarrel, but you don't get a result, that's uncomfortable.

However, he chose the latter, and Yan An naturally revealed it.

It's just that their appearance made the rest of the people in the car even more uncomfortable, and they didn't even dare to breathe, and the drivers could only devote themselves to observing the road conditions, so as not to be depressed.

Wang Zhifang also inadvertently took advantage of it.

Finally arrived at Nandu University, and the group fled after unloading the equipment.

Yan An turned on the power supply, and when he entered work normally, the stone hanging in his heart fell.

This is the new laboratory building built by the school last year, which was originally intended to be put into use at that time, but then I heard that the scientific research team that was about to become the owner sought another job, and it was shelved for a while, and then it was not put into use for various reasons.

Naturally, the result was that Yan An was cheaper, and the three-story building was granted to them.

The laboratory building is located next to an artificial lake, and the surrounding environment is quiet, with a lot of flowers and trees.

The name of the five or six joint projects with Nandu University is very common, it is called "Algorithm Research", so this building is also named the Algorithm Building.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Yan An finally waited for BT's news, "Your Excellency, Captain, the connection has now been restored." ”

This is the best news, and he can finally put his mind at ease.

"When I have time, I will buy a few smart speakers and come back, I will be useful." Because Li Junwei and they went to Pingjing, this task fell to Gao Shenghan.

After the smart speaker was bought, Yan An made a small change to the object linked to its interface, which caused the self-test program to lock the device.

Fortunately, the device is locked or something, and the RSA password authentication device is used, which is very easy for Yan An to solve, and it is easy to "pry open" the self-test program.

The current speaker looks the same as other speakers, but the evoked Xiaoyi Xiaoai has become BT, so that he can communicate directly with BT in these two places.

Don't be afraid even if others ask, just let BT disguise itself as an artificial intelligence on the Blue Dome.

Gao Shenghan, who was also worried that the smart speaker would leak secrets, was relieved after seeing that Yan An had changed their network upload mechanism and compared databases.

All that is used is their internal data, and even if the information is uploaded, it is recorded in their server and will not be known by the vendor.

After finishing these things, Yan An officially cleared up, he resumed his normal class, and began to study to make up for the basics.

It's not unclear that graduating early would save him more trouble and effort, and save him a lot of trouble.

However, BT's side is very difficult to pass, Yan An doesn't want to be branded as a person who is out of the group and has reduced social skills.

Anyway, he won't encroach on his time too much, it's just that he will waste some money on the way to and from class, and Yan An is willing to bear this loss.

Throughout December, Yan An spent the whole month studying, and some very interesting things happened in the outside world.

For example, Zhu Chi's order to change the encryption method has attracted the attention of the regent state, although it has not yet been forcefully implemented, but the demand has already been issued, and it is impossible for countries to hide such a big move from each other.

Not only that, but in all of Zhu Chi's official institutes, research projects on the decryption of the RSA algorithm have been halted and terminated, and unless other investments can be found, projects without official funding will be abandoned in just one month.

At the same time, Zhu Chi is vigorously supporting the research of quantum-resistant cryptography, and the research funding of the relevant team has increased by 30% in a short period of time.

This unusual move has attracted the attention of all parties.

To this day, RSA remains one of the most reliable encryption algorithms, and its position is unshakable until quantum computers are able to officially crack it completely.

Not even quantum-resistant cryptography, which will not be replaced at least for five years after its introduction.

In this case, Zhu Chi did not hesitate to affect the financial system and intelligence system, and also made up his mind to speed up the research on quantum-resistant cryptography, and then directly replace RSA encryption.

This is not only an anomaly, but also a reminder that there must be a deeper reason behind it.

On this issue, at Zhu Chi's regular daily press conference, a reporter from the regent country raised his doubts, "We have noticed that your country is deliberately changing the RSA encryption algorithm, and I would like to ask what the reason for this is.

Has your country made progress in RSA cracking? Can we make a guess that your country's research institutions have cracked the RSA encryption algorithm and are not going to follow the spirit of science without borders and make it public, but to apply it privately. ”

His question caused a low laugh, this look like an ignorant reporter, just trying to splash dirty water on Zhu Chi.

If he can know a little bit about RSA, then it should be clear that it is not so easy to crack, although the Shor algorithm is a fatal threat to RSA.

But this threat will be a long time before it comes, and people will not tolerate such a huge loss and abandon RSA until it does.

Zhao Li raised his eyelids and glanced at the other party, he didn't mean anything, but he looked at it with disdain, full of momentum.

"Regarding the progress made in RSA cracking, I can clearly tell you that there has indeed been a major breakthrough in the relevant research institutes in China, and a vulnerability in the RSA encryption algorithm has been found.

Given the severity of this vulnerability, we had to incur a huge cost to replace the RSA encryption in order to avoid significant losses. ”

This is the answer, and at the same time makes all reporters have a question in their hearts, the RSA encryption algorithm has gone through nearly 40 years of ups and downs since it was proposed, and has firmly occupied a place in password attack and defense, how can there be a vulnerability?

"Regarding this vulnerability, we have raised a challenge to RSA Crypto Co., Ltd., and hope that they will officially respond to us and actively bear all the losses caused by the algorithm vulnerability."

After Zhao Li finished saying this question, he looked like he wouldn't mention it again, and he hung his appetite.

Immediately after the meeting, the reporters found information related to the RSA encryption company, and were shocked to find that the vulnerability was actually real.

Zhu Chi pointed out that after the breakthrough in their research, they found DUAL_EC_DRBG loophole, that is, the double elliptic curve deterministic random bit generator, which is an algorithm used to generate pseudorandom numbers.

But some numbers are fixed, and as long as you find them, you can use them as a master key to crack them through some built-in algorithms.

RSA is one of the most used algorithms in the world, and if this vulnerability is exploited, it can easily wreak havoc on a country.

If the regime is less resilient, it is possible to collapse it directly.

Just as RSA Crypto is trying to prove that this is just a vulnerability.

Aris, a computer science expert at Liguo, pointed out that DUAL_EC_DRBG used a secret value to calculate an elliptic curve point constant, and this secret value is a fixed backdoor, that is, this vulnerability is not a "vulnerability" but a backdoor deliberately left by RSA Cryptography.

Who requested this backdoor to be implanted, and who was left for it.

No one knows, but everyone guesses it.

What's even more interesting is that RSA Crypto, in order to avoid damage to its reputation, issued a clarification announcement overnight, complaining to everyone that they are also victims.

Depending on the nature of the urine in a certain department, they may indeed be victims.

But now everyone sees a "victim" who is fighting for the tiger.

At the same time as the clarification announcement was issued, they stopped using the products involved in this backdoor.

As for the losses caused by this backdoor, they did not directly compensate countries for the losses caused by replacing their products, but offered to use their company's more advanced and advanced encryption algorithms to give countries a free trial.

In order to retain Zhu Chi, a giant market, in order to thank Zhu Chi for helping them catch such a big loophole.

The CEO of RSA Crypto Company made a special trip to Zhu Chi, promising that other products would never have this problem, and was willing to discount the products Zhu Chi needed, but only got an ambiguous answer.

After seeing that Zhu Chi just abandoned the relevant products and asked for the replacement of the encryption algorithm but did not enforce it immediately, other countries suddenly understood that Zhu Chi actually had no good alternatives, and just took the opportunity to get a bigger discount.

Seeing that Zhu Chi had no choice, countries were even more helpless, so they could only pinch their noses to buy more expensive services, praying that similar problems would not arise again.

As for Zhu Chi to promote the construction and improvement of the quantum-resistant cryptography system, just so that one day it can replace RSA, they have this idea, but they don't have the economic strength to do so.

The cost of hastily changing the encryption system to the entire country is huge, and not all those in office have the courage to make such a decision.

Their country's finances do not allow such to happen.

So the impact of this matter gradually subsided within half a month, everyone knows that RSA encryption companies are not good, but there is no replacement and is reluctant to replace, just like life, they have no other way but to make do with life.

……

Inside the National Security Agency, a burly man with flaxen hair and a pale blue suit threw the report to the ground with a displeased expression.

"The development speed of these Zhu Chi people is much faster than we imagined! The prism has also been punctured by them, you have done nothing, you can't find their research institute, you don't even know the progress of the research, what's the use of asking you bunch of waste! ”

The person he scolded lowered his head and didn't dare to look at his boss's face, "Please rest assured, they can't crack the RSA, this time they are just lucky."

We also have the electric screen and the Quantum attack platform, and their internet is still shrouded in our shadows. ”

The screen is a top-of-the-line backdoor made by their super-notch hacking group.

The Quantum attack platform is an advanced network traffic hijacking attack technology specially designed for the national Internet.

Compared to prisms, these two techniques are obviously more advanced and less easily detected.

Seeing that the boss hadn't spoken yet, the subordinate said with some hesitation, "We can also use their current products to destroy them while they haven't completely replaced......"

Before he could finish his sentence, a pen holder was smashed into his head, followed by folders, and all the mess was smashed over.

While throwing it, the boss scolded angrily, "You are really a complete incorrigible idiot, tell me how you got into the Security Bureau, people like you should be purified by 'eugenics'!"

They all already know about the prism back door, won't they prevent us! At this time, do you want the whole world to know about it? Idiot! ”

The current RSA crypto company does not have the slightest credibility to speak of, but all parties have no choice but to pinch their noses and continue to cooperate, and self-hypnotize, believing that RSA will not have similar problems in the future.

This is a sensitive period, if they want to make any small moves, Zhu Chi's counterattack must be resolute, once it is pierced again, who else in the world will trust them, will trust RSA Cryptography Company?

There is no need to live a life, but if you have some ideas, you have to take out your back hand to top it even if you endure severe pain, and it won't be long before RSA Crypto Company will be abandoned.

At that point, who will dominate the field of cryptography in the future?

Are they still Zhu Chi, who is already eyeing the market and ready to enter the market to get a piece of the pie? Who can guarantee that they will continue to dominate in the future under such complex conditions.

They can only endure this matter first, and they can't make any more small moves in the near future.

Only wait for Zhu Chi to relax and use the electric curtain or Quantum to get back all the qi they received today, so that they can feel remorse for what they have done.

"That Aris...... I want you to do everything you can to find out his problems for me, copper smelting, QJ, racial discrimination, and he should pay the corresponding price for what he has done! ”