Reply to post: Re: Easy to crack (for any governments engineers)

US government seizes Texas gun mass murder to demand backdoors

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Re: Easy to crack (for any governments engineers)

Time to brute force each handset - 1E20 years, assuming you can commandeer the entire computing resources of the planet to run the calculations.

OK, so I've pulled the figure out of the air, but that's what is meant by *strong* encryption nowadays, and is why brute forcing keys is not an option.

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