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Re:Xkcd: Encryptic by shawabawa3 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @04:59AM (#6674260)
100 bits of entropy takes around 10^26 seconds to crack [1]

Even if you somehow managed to get a botnet of 100 million machines, it would still take longer than the age of the universe to brute force it.

Security of 3DES is effectively 112 bits [2] if random keys are used. Although as I said, this is assuming adobe weren't completely stupid (and reused one or more of the keys, or used non-random keys)

   [1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html

   [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES

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