ukchucktown
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Message #174498 posted by ukchucktown (Info) April 26, 2008 15:39:34 ET
In Reply to: Re: ohh boyyy.. here it goes.... posted by bum (Info) April 26, 2008 12:53:23 ET
You guys are free to be paranoid if you like. Like I said, a cell phone will get you caught faster than a RRID chip.
I'm not worried. The government already knows all my dark secrets anyway thanks to my top secret security clearance.
As for encryption being broken, show me documented proof that a 2048 or 4096 bit bit key has ever been cracked. The only way to crack is brute force described below and it's simply not feasible with today's technology. As technology advances, key sizes will increase.
Even if a cipher is unbreakable by exploiting structural weaknesses in the algorithm, it is possible to run through the entire space of keys in what is known as a brute force attack. Since longer keys require more work to brute force search, a long enough key will require more work than is feasible. Thus, length of the key is important in resisting this type of attack.
With a key of length n bits, there are 2n possible keys. This number grows extremely rapidly as n increases. Moore's law suggests that computing power doubles roughly every 18 months, but even this doubling effect leaves the key lengths currently considered acceptable well out of reach. The large number of operations (2128) required to try all possible 128-bit keys will be out of reach for all of humankind's conventional computing power for the foreseeable future.
Peace, UK
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