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AES being broken doesn't mean someone managed to brute force a key. It means someone found a flaw that enables them to break any key in much less time than you'
by onion2k 5y ago
AES being broken doesn't mean someone managed to brute force a key. It means someone found a flaw that enables them to break any key in much less time than you'd expect a brute force attack to take. In other words, if AES is broken people would be able to read that ephemeral data quickly enough for it to be useful.
- xg15 5y agoI know - and the ephemeral data that attackers were able to capture would of course be at risk. My point was that data owners have options to limit damage - e.g. immediately stopping any data transmission and not producing any future ephemeral data.