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Comment by endeavor

Your scale is way off.

To brute-force AES-128, if you assume:

- Every person on the planet owns 10 computers.

- There are 7 billion people on the planet.

- Each of these computers can test 1 billion key combinations per second.

- On average, you can crack the key after testing 50% of the possibilities.

Then the earth's population can crack one key in 77,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

Source: Seagate, http://dator8.info/pdf/AES/3.pdf

parent endeavor 12 years ago

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