Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg
by nitrogen on Thursday January 19, 2012 @08:36PM
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We already have encryption that can't be brute forced within the lifetime of the universe.
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Yet.
Yet.
Ever. I don't have the original source in front of me, but with enough bits, assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm, you couldn't brute force a key before the heat death of the universe even if you recruited every particle in the visible universe for your computation.
> assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm
Big "if".