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| Authored by: bugstomper on Tuesday, January 29 2013 @ 01:39 PM EST |
"Today, 128 bit encryption can be brute forced in significantly less time
then 10 years ago"
128 bit encryption has 2 to the 128th power keys to try if you brute force. On
average you have to try half of them until you get the right key, so that's 2 to
the 127th tries. That is approximately (a bit more than)
128,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
If your super fast cluster of computers can compute a trillion keys per second,
that would be
128,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 seconds
Approximating one billion seconds is 32 years, that's roughly
4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
How much faster are computers now than 10 years ago?
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| Authored by: artp on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 12:09 AM EST |
There are ethical considerations which must be considered. If I don't live by
principles, I am no better than any other criminal.
BUT....
It is much more obvious when someone puts an unlocked file cabinet in a public
hallway with sensitive information in it than it is to make a dumb choice when
allegedly securing sensitive information that leaves it exposed to anybody who
comes along on a different route than the one that you secured.
Gross negligence is one of the things that can still get corporate employees and
Board of Directors in trouble. And that is another ethical consideration to take
into account.
I can't even remember all of the bone-headed decisions that I have run into over
the years that exposed private, sensitive or business-critical information. It
quickly got to the point where I tried to crash every computer that I ran into,
just because my clients deserved better. If I could crash it, then somebody else
would after I helped install it, and that wouldn't be good for any of us.
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When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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