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Modern cryptography is typically in the class where, barring some mathematical breakthrough (a la the P/NP thing), it would take many times more compute resourc
by amalcon 10y ago
Modern cryptography is typically in the class where, barring some mathematical breakthrough (a la the P/NP thing), it would take many times more compute resources than the Earth has for longer than the Earth will likely exist to break.
Modern DRM is typically in the class where you can either spend at most a few days with a debugger and a code editor, or buy a $20 knockoff device to break it.
These are not really comparable.
- j1vms 10y ago> (...) it would take many times more compute resources than the Earth has for longer than the Earth will likely exist to break. Claims like these are often misleading as they assume that i) malicious parties' capabilities, ii) what is and isn't possible, and iii) implementation correctness, are all static known factors. Cryptography is more akin to putting a lock on a fence - it's going to keep most people out or perhaps deter prying eyes, but it's all probabilistic in the end and depends on who's doing the prying.