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

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:58:23 +0100

Bryan Olson writes:

> Is "finite" supposed to have something to do with some issue in
> this thread?

Yes, namely, the time required to crack a cipher by exhaustive search of
the keyspace. 

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