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RE: Security Alert: Encryption is not very hard to crack 1024-bit, 2048-bit, 4096-bit and NSA Quantum Resistant Algorithm [Encryption Scorecard Inside]
What are your thoughts can we rely on current encryption standards or is it just security theater?
Also if there any cryptography or security experts in the audience please share your insights on the subject.
Nested ciphers and statistically tapered arrays used to be good insurance to sort of build an more encapsulated encryption. But then the decoders got sneaky with some of the methods that you mention. It will be for a for ever arms race. Years ago I sat on a computer security committee that issued the same remarks every year that the only safe system was one that was shut off with nothing stored on it. It is one large chess game out there. You have to look at "reasonable measures". So in context for somethings it is both timely and prudent to use a quick cipher. Intelligence information is graded based on several factors like the quality of the source and if it was first hand or not. In operations security opsec they use three concentric circles of consideration to determine where to place countermeasures. So the most sensitive information contrasted by it's risk of detection and vulnerability gets the highest protection.