Basically the computational strength of any type of encryption depends on the algorithm and the key length. Any high school kid a little enthusiastic about Math can calculate and store all primes for all numbers within 32 bits which are all primes you need to get all numbers within 64 bit numbers and with some indexing and directed acyclic graphs you can also have their prime factorization
Of course, the NSAs and all those companies in cahoots with them do not exist in a separate physical or logical reality but: 1st) There isn't really that much actual data out there 2nd) Technically and "legally" there is nothing they can't do. As the lavabit case showed to us all gringo companies and their friends MUST submit to snitching. Period! They even gag order them to not even talk about it: https://lavabit.com/ "My Fellow Users, I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit." ... BTW, I don't think at all Snowden is some agent or was framed to do anything lbrtchx debian-user@lists.debian.org: Security? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFakBwjqtxPDv=rca4j4f7eox5qneoiwzrxsq2bvzh5c2yw...@mail.gmail.com