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Millions of terabyte disks of storage. Then repeat the attack a couple thousand times. In cryptography, you don't want "ludicrously" infeasible, as in the NSA
by mike_hock 3y ago
Millions of terabyte disks of storage. Then repeat the attack a couple thousand times.
In cryptography, you don't want "ludicrously" infeasible, as in the NSA can just about afford the hardware and do it, you want astronomically infeasible.
- SahAssar 3y agoAnd you want it to be so infeasible that even attacking a single message with perfect knowledge of all non-secrets is "astronomically infeasible". Its not enough to just make it astronomically infeasible to attack everyone.