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

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

Steven Lembark wrote:
> 
>>     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.
> 
> Therefore, brute forcing an AES key of any length
> is quite possible, even if it is unlikely. q.e.d.
> 

	This is not interesting data nor particularly relevant. That said, the 
chances of your key is not randomly guessed are far far better than 
average. Getting lucky is not the same as being able to evaluate a 
significant portion of the key space in a short period of time.

kashani
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