Victor Duchovni writes:
-+-
| The computing power of the microprocessor is still under
| 32 powers of 2 from its inception, naive extrapolation
| to the next 32 powers of 2 is unwise.
Well taken, indeed.
But what I am myself interested in is the relationship
of the three
In the NBC TV episode of /Chuck/ a couple of weeks ago, the NSA
cracked
a 512-bit AES cipher on a flash drive trying every possible key.
Could be hours, could be days. (Only minutes in TV land.)
http://www.nbc.com/Chuck/video/episodes/#vid=838461
(Chuck Versus The Fat Lady, 4th segment, at
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0800, Jon Callas wrote:
In the NBC TV episode of /Chuck/ a couple of weeks ago, the NSA
cracked
a 512-bit AES cipher on a flash drive trying every possible key.
Could be hours, could be days. (Only minutes in TV land.)
Jerry Leichter wrote:
...
accurately states that AES-128 is thought to be secure within the state
of current and expected cryptographic knowledge, it propagates the meme
of the short key length of only 128 bits. A key length of 128 bits is
beyond any conceivable brute force attack - in and
On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:10 AM, Alexander Klimov wrote:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Encrypting-hard-disk-housing-cracked--/news/112141
:
With its Digittrade Security hard disk, the German vendor
Digittrade has launched another hard disk housing based on the
unsafe IM7206 controller by