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It's the entire mandate of the NSA's Utah Data Center. Archive all the world's encrypted data until such a time as it can be decrypted when either the algorithms have been cracked or machines are powerful enough to brute-force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center






More like until they'll get the keys

Or maybe they found a way to outsource brute forcing the keys.

128 bits will never be bruteforced. There's nothing to outsource. The only actual risk is that the encryption algorithm is cracked.

> 128 bits will never be bruteforced

Famous last words




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