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by mtct 13y ago
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- dageshi 13y agoI don't think that scales very well...
- UVB-76 13y agoAlas, the NSA can afford a million dollar cluster to crack your password...
- riquito 13y agoAll the computers in the world wouldn't be able to brute force AES with a strong key in less than 10 quadrillion years [1]. They would be better off spending millions in four-leaf clovers and faceroll the password. That said if they knew a way to crack AES or RSA it would be a different story (a nightmare). [1] http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-to-256-bit-aes-keys/ http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-t...
- jiggy2011 13y agoA million dollar cluster won't make a dent in cracking an AES key of a proper size. Not unless the NSA have managed to solve some pretty baffling math problems and keep it secret.
- IanChiles 13y agoThe NSA is currently the largest employer of mathematicians in the US. To think they haven't found anything of use would be naive at best. http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/advanced_math/ http://www.nsa.gov/research/tech_transfer/advanced_math/
- riquito 13y agoAES is a specification of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). USA use it to encrypt the most sensitive informations. It's hard to think that they would use a broken cryptographyc algorithm themselves
- sweedy 13y agothe common xkcd-answer when it comes to cryptography.. http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
- noerps 13y agoIt simply does not need to scale very well to scare the few people which understand crypto and plausible deniability.