Re:The Manual One-Time Pad
by _fizz_buzz_ on Sunday August 23, 2015 @02:34PM
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> You can bruteforce AES-256 if you were using a quantum computer.
Not true. AES does not suffer from the same weaknesses as many public key schemes. A quantum computer could speed up an attack on AES, but does not fundamentally break it.
> Or if there's a new advance in algebraic cryptanalysis.
Sure. But my point was that there are much weaker points than the encryption in a communication system.
Not true. AES does not suffer from the same weaknesses as many public key schemes. A quantum computer could speed up an attack on AES, but does not fundamentally break it.
> Or if there's a new advance in algebraic cryptanalysis.
Sure. But my point was that there are much weaker points than the encryption in a communication system.