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VWWHFSfQ
4 days ago
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How the US defense secretary circumvents official ...
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
rurban
4 days ago
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More like until they'll get the keys
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fidotron
4 days ago
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Or maybe they found a way to outsource brute forcing the keys.
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poincaredisk
2 days ago
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128 bits will never be bruteforced. There's nothing to outsource. The only actual risk is that the encryption algorithm is cracked.
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worik
2 days ago
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> 128 bits will never be bruteforced
Famous last words
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