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GPUs have been shown to be very good at complex math problems. A nation state with unlimited money could find a weakness built into crypto in a matter of days a
by cannonedhamster 7y ago
GPUs have been shown to be very good at complex math problems. A nation state with unlimited money could find a weakness built into crypto in a matter of days at most. A bored hacker would probably find it in a few hours.
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- all_blue_chucks 7y agoYou've been watching too much TV. Actual encryption primitives are often used with keys that would require a computer the size of the solarsystem to brute force. Bored hackers and nation states do not have such computers, no matter how well they are funded.
- cannonedhamster 7y agoI'm not talking about brute forcing good encryption, I'm solely talking about nation states ability to find the back door entry. I may have confused the issue taking about GPUs.