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Originally Posted by KC native
The NSA can break any encryption that they want. It doesn't matter what you use.
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no they cant. They might be able to gain access to some systems via side channel attacks, but they rarely break strong encryption. The fundamental math behind encryption holds up even under theoretical quantum mechanics.
truecrypt uses AES 256,
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Breaking a symmetric 256-bit key by brute force requires 2128 times more computational power than a 128-bit key. 50 supercomputers that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second (if such a device could ever be made) would, in theory, require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.
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http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279619