Assange's insurance: Password to a 1.3Gb file of unfiltered leaks (theglobeandmail.com) 17 points by kjrose 15y ago ↗ HN
[–] j2d2j2d2 15y ago ↗ Could any crypto guru's take a guess at how strong this claim is?protected with an unbreakable 256-bit encryption key [–] Herring 15y ago ↗ There is not enough energy in the sun to perform the instructions necessary to break AES256.Source: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/01/2141226 [–] kennethreitz 15y ago ↗ "A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space." - wikipedia [–] kjrose 15y ago ↗ Unless there's a backdoor in the S-Box that no one knows about, it's pretty much impossible.
[–] Herring 15y ago ↗ There is not enough energy in the sun to perform the instructions necessary to break AES256.Source: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/01/2141226
[–] kennethreitz 15y ago ↗ "A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space." - wikipedia
[–] kjrose 15y ago ↗ Unless there's a backdoor in the S-Box that no one knows about, it's pretty much impossible.
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Source: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/01/2141226