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Re:Too Much Crypto [pdf] by amelius on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:49PM (#21918355)
Also: if I send a sufficiently encrypted message today, that message may be captured by a malicious actor, stored and decoded later, after the cypher has been broken.
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Re:Too Much Crypto [pdf] by tptacek on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:58PM (#21918388)
Yes, everyone understands this. That's why the paper is talking about attacks at the boundaries of what is physically possible, not in terms of what an attacker could cost-effectively do online.
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Re:Too Much Crypto [pdf] by sroussey on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:32PM (#21918514)
People advocating putting sensitive data on blockchains in encrypted form do not understand this.
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