Re: 1000 Trillion instructions per second SuperComputer at Oak Ridge NL - time to crack AES-128?

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/03


Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:00:36 +0100

Andrew Swallow writes:

> The 50 foot thick walls of your safe can be broken.

If the walls are thicker than the universe is wide, they cannot be
broken.

> It just takes a sufficiently large number of miners and a bit of
> dynamite.

If the number of miners required exceeds the number of atoms in the
universe, the safe will never be cracked.

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