‘Crumple Zones’ in crypto mechanisms can make it possible – but astronomically expensive – to access encrypted data, say researchers from Boston University and Portland State University.
Security experts long have maintained that providing any kind of backdoor access to encrypted data as governments everywhere have been demanding is not possible without seriously undermining the overall security provided by encryption mechanisms.
Now a pair of researchers from Boston University and Portland State University has developed a first-of-its kind cryptographic technique that they say provides something of a middle ground.
