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2025-02-22 21:19:27
it was the most disrupting event of humankind. all information security was broken.
cryptography literally translates to "the writing in secret code.". and cryptographers already knew it way before. they had always known it. it was all about writing in code that was hard to understand. but in the end, one way functions did not really exist. it was just a false hope, it was a dream of mathematicians, and it created a whole industry, information processing, which eventually evolved into all industries accross the world economy, it was simply too large to fail.
yet, it was all based on confusion, on obfuscated secret code. but the code had the pattern from the beginning, and even first cryptographers understood the code to unlock the pattern existed, yet it was not known, at least not by many.
in 2039 first speculations leaked that some organizations hold theories of how all information security could be broken. many conspiracy theories were spread on the internet, but in january 2043 something happened. a major breakages in almost all internet traffic started to happen and just a few hours later, at almost same instant, stock markets and cryptocurrencies crashed by 99 %. it was the beginning of the end of all information technology as we knew it.
since then, cryptography has been mostly referred as a religion and pseudo security. still some try to invent secure algorithms, despite the proofs that one-way functions do not exist.
- anon, 2044