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Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe

katrinab Silver badge
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Re: Yep.

If you had "the entire age of the universe" to crack an encryption key, you would spend your time developing faster / better hardware to do the brute force rather than try to do it on existing equipment.

If you had something that 20 years ago was going to take 50 years on an impossibly fast supercomputer to crack, how many milliseconds would it take a raspberry pi to do it today?

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