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That's a very bad example as all walls and all locks are breakable.
by 0dayz 3y ago
That's a very bad example as all walls and all locks are breakable.
- mcv 3y agoSo is encryption with sufficient resources. The point is to make it non-trivial.
- chrismorgan 3y agoThe express goal of cryptographers is to make this false. Currently, no viable attacks on state-of-the-art cryptography are publicly known.
- porridgeraisin 3y agoThe difference in magnitude of resources required is so immense that it's not meaningful to compare at all.
- mcv 3y agoIt's not like police generally go about knocking down walls to find criminals either. Quite often, bypassing walls and locks requires a warrant. And I'm all for police being able to use a warrant to demand that you decrypt a message. Demanding that people use no or easily breakable encryption amounts to demanding that people use easily pickable locks. Or walls with holes in them. It undermines the security of ordinary people.
- rjmunro 3y agoIt's possible to make encryption where "sufficient resources" is of the order of all the energy in the Sun until the end of time. That's not remotely breakable, even for the government.
- hackeraccount 3y agoI disagree - most breaks in encryption come about not because of poor math but rather poor implementation.
- seanw444 3y agoAnd even those breaks in encryption are overwhelmingly the minority of what gets people caught. Bad OpSec is the worst offender. Metadata too.