>> >Based on Moore's Law, this means it will be secure on computers roughly
>> >10,000 times more powerful than today's systems. How likely is that?
>
>>Its not hard to imagine, if all we're talking about is brute force attacks.
>
>Those are essentially the numbers I came up with as well. However (and I
>admit to being fairly new to this), how many current schemes can be broken
>solely through brute force? Are any of them vulnerable to more elegant
When you say "broken soley through brute force" do you have
some kind of time limit in mind? Because if you don't, they *all*
(except one time pads) can be broken *in time* through brute force.
It's just that with sufficiently high key sizes, that *in time* goes
past the end of the universe.
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