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Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg by rjbond3rd on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:15PM (#3488283)
Yet.
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Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg by nitrogen on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:19AM (#3488458)
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.

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Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg by peterhunt on Friday January 20, 2012 @01:34AM (#3488606)
> assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm

Big "if".

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Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg by rjbond3rd on Friday January 20, 2012 @11:21AM (#3489978)
Exactly.
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