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To: SeekAndFind; Blueflag

Such encryption can be cracked with one of the few supercomputers or with a very large distributed computing effort. It’s a matter of whether or not the cracking needed has a high enough priority for the time and resources required for either kind of effort. And if so, likely a matter of weeks.


30 posted on 03/28/2016 6:10:13 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SeekAndFind; Blueflag

And with such an effort, BTW, only one instance of encrypted data is cracked—not the encryption scheme.


32 posted on 03/28/2016 6:12:33 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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Probably not weeks - think ‘eons.’ ;-0

Just over 10e77 combinations in a 256 bit key.

Here’s a fairly easy read on the topic — http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619


33 posted on 03/28/2016 6:14:11 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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