We tackle the elephant in the room
How to Design a Completely Unbreakable Encryption System
There are plenty of companies that like to claim that your data is protected by military-grade encryption. To anyone unfamiliar with the technical jargon, this sounds like an impenetrable vault where your data is never compromised. If it’s good enough for the military, it must be great.
I want to address the elephant in the room, which is that there is no such thing as “military grade.” Well, not in the way you might think. When companies use the term military grade, it’s mostly for marketing purposes and little else. What they really mean is that their company offers Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 encryption.
Although the military uses the AES encryption algorithm, it was actually the first publicly available and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) to protect information at a “Top Secret” level. Adding military grade to it only serves to boost sales. So, with that out of the way, let’s move on to the important question.
