Re: [gentoo-user] My last words on cryptology and cryptography.

[Sebastian Wiesner]

Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com> at Thursday 26 June 2008, 23:52:17
> >     I submit that brute forcing an AES key of reasonably length is
> > currently impossible in an amount of time that would matter to the
> > human race.
>
> On average yes.
>
> As already pointed out, however, there is nothing
> to prevent the first guess from matching a key and
> cracking one particular example of the cipher in
> 0.0001 seconds.

A probability of something like 1 / 50000 to die in a car accident does not 
one prevent from driving a car.  But a probability of 1 / (2^256) of 
finding the first key right away at the first guess is easily held up 
against key security of AES ...  now that's a very strange mismatch.

Apparently you consider the security of your life much, much less worth than 
security of your encrypted hard disk ...

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