YHBW.

[maradydd]

Observation just now from Radu Sion during the FC rump session: in the cloud, it costs about $5 million to brute-force 64 bits of symmetric key.

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

That's both scary and sorta non-surprising...

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

What time-scale are we looking at? Or is this a pure time-vs-power tradeoff, so $5M buys me enough computations, either in parallel or over time, to brute-force? Five minutes but very visible to the cloud providers, or five days, but much less visible?