Re: Needle in a haystack--or is this just stupid?

"Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I would choose the logical option, realize that 2^256 work
> is imply impossible at todays computation levels, and even
> with the maximum possible benefit from a quantum computer
> 256-bit AES is still well beyond the possible computation
> limits, and live with it.

Assuming, of course, that AES-256 actually requires 2^256
work to break it. That's an awfully big number and an
awfully big assumption for something with as short a track
record as AES has.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:44:41 2005