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Bingo! Money and time. When you're going against an adversary with massive amounts of both, all bets are off. Physical access means eventual compromise.
by SEJeff 6y ago
Bingo! Money and time. When you're going against an adversary with massive amounts of both, all bets are off. Physical access means eventual compromise.
- glator 6y agoShouldn't a strong symmetric encryption with a long key prove to be safe enough as to not be crackable in a reasonable amount of time (~10 years), even if the hardware is directly accessible ?
- Forbo 6y agoI don't know why you were voted dead for asking a question. I vouched for your comment.
- PhantomGremlin 6y agoI don't know why you were voted dead for asking a question. That's a new account (name in green). I think they start out dead. I think one or more comments need to be voted up and then the account becomes not dead (alive?).
- gruez 6y agoYes, but long keys are unwieldy. There's a comment I made in this thread[1] that calculates how long of a password you need for 128 bits of entropy. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358206
- mrandish 6y agoProbably, at least in practice if no critical components in the chain fail due to bugs/exploits and are as secure as intended (excluding the metaphorical "hammer VS fingers" attack). I think the difference here between you and the poster you replied to is that you're probably correct given certain assumptions but the earlier post also remains correct in a conceptual or theoretical sense, like pure information/security theory