Massively parallel number crunching at EPFL

EPFL IC LACAL, Station 14, CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandAbstract. Ever wondered how information is protected? No one knows for sure. None of thecurrently used methods can be guaranteed to offer security. All we can say is that we cannotbreak them. We hope that others cannot do so either. Long term security estimates rely onexperiments. Some of those carried out at EPFL’s Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms aredescribed.