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Yet.

Ever. I don't have the original source in front of me, but with enough bits, assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm, you couldn't brute force a key before the heat death of the universe even if you recruited every particle in the visible universe for your computation.



> assuming there isn't some fundamental flaw in the encryption algorithm

Big "if".


Exactly.




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