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Steven Lembark wrote: |
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>> I submit that brute forcing an AES key of reasonably length is |
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>> currently impossible in an amount of time that would matter to the |
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>> human race. |
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> On average yes. |
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> As already pointed out, however, there is nothing |
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> to prevent the first guess from matching a key and |
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> cracking one particular example of the cipher in |
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> 0.0001 seconds. |
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> Therefore, brute forcing an AES key of any length |
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> is quite possible, even if it is unlikely. q.e.d. |
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This is not interesting data nor particularly relevant. That said, the |
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chances of your key is not randomly guessed are far far better than |
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average. Getting lucky is not the same as being able to evaluate a |
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significant portion of the key space in a short period of time. |
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kashani |
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