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Most people outside of this community are not using disk encryption. With that said and the caveat that I am not an encryption expert myself: given an infinite
by gjmulhol 13y ago
Most people outside of this community are not using disk encryption.
With that said and the caveat that I am not an encryption expert myself: given an infinite amount of computing power and an infinite amount of time, can full disk encryption not be broken? If so, then it is just a question of computing power and time, not of whether it is possible to get to the data.
- unimpressive 13y ago>given an infinite amount of computing power and an infinite amount of time, can full disk encryption not be broken? Sure. But the difference between "infinite" and "a couple billion years" from a human perspective is minute.
- lawnchair_larry 13y agoYeah, just a matter of time. Bring a flashlight though, because the sun is projected to burn out far sooner than the largest supercomputer will be able to brute force a 256 bit key.
- quchen 13y agoCombinatorical problems tend to grow in the amount of effort to try out all possible elements quite quickly, and quickly growing things in turns often hit physical limits. The following post on Security.Stackexchange explains it quite nicely; excerpt: the sun doesn't emit enough energy over its lifetime to power an extremely efficient computer able to try all combinations. http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25878/25947 http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25878/25947 So basically we need some new form of computer (one that's not flipping individual physical bits), and not "just faster" ones, to crack certain encryptions by brute force.