An alleged Department of Defense encryption-breaking program was accidentally found unencrypted on a backup server inside New York University by a security researcher. The project details advanced math systems designed to break encryption and passwords. While the project was allegedly in development between 2005 and 2012, the documents suggest it wouldnt have been ready until 2014. The tool used to find the documents seems to have been Shodan, an internet-of-things scanning search engine, designed to find internet-connected devices with poor authentication credentials.”]