Nick Bastin wrote:
>
> Strong, in cryptography, is an entirely relative term. It's relative to how
> bad you want the data and how much you want to spend. For less than $150k,
> you can slap together a specialized computer which can eat through the entire
> 56-bit key set in less than a week
> ...
> Given enough money, 128-bit will fall as well.
Yes, would you spend $70,835,497,243,044,678,205,440,000 to crack a 128
bit key in a week ? You could spend even less, due to "scale economies"
:)
Bye !
-- Daniele Orlandi Planet Srl
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