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I am almost certain that no crypto invented today could withstand 100 years of technological progress (i. e. computing power, possibly even mathematics).
by rbinv 6y ago
I am almost certain that no crypto invented today could withstand 100 years of technological progress (i. e. computing power, possibly even mathematics).
- londons_explore 6y agoIt is notable that the only historic cryptography that has lasted more than 100 years has relied on security-by-obscurity. There are still a lot of archeological secret messages nobody has been able to decode, sometimes despite pretty big efforts.
- labawi 6y agoIt is also notable that 100 years ago computers were a group of people in a room.
- SahAssar 6y agoThat assumes that those messages are decodable, which is not a given. For example it's not at all sure if the Voynich manuscript even can be decoded (it might be a hoax, glossolalia or similar).