• jimbolauski@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    There are cryptographic methods which allow me to send you a public encryption key which is mathematically related to a private decryption key. Brute forcing the private key is possible but computationally expensive. An AES 256 key has 2^256 different keys that would need to be checked it would take Frontier, the fastest supercomputer right now can do 1.1e18 calculations per second 5.1e78 seconds 2.32e71 years.