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majewsky on Feb 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop su...

So... we have to wait for quantum computers to break the AES keys? :)

foobiekr on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

Quantum computers are only marginally faster against symmetric key encryption - AES128 requires 2^64 quantum operations.

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