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"Unbreakable Encryption" means you're in a movie or TV show that requires unbreakable encryption as a plot point.
Okay, here's the thing. Good encryption is difficult to break the way people normally think of "breaking" encryption. RSA, AES, Blowfish, PGP/GPG- these were not only written by experts, but then they were tested, improved, and vetted by other experts. Breaking by brute force is possible, but not practical. When PGP first came out, it was estimated that a brute force attack would take longer than the Earth has left to live. However, encryption is difficult to implement properly. "Breaking" encryption is really about attacking the implementation, not the encryption itself. Is there a flaw that lets you find the key in memory? Is it susceptible to the Padding Oracle Attack? Can you access the PGP keyring and reverse the key hash using a rainbow table? These are some of the ways encryption is "broken".
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[–] SteelKidney ago
"Unbreakable Encryption" means you're in a movie or TV show that requires unbreakable encryption as a plot point.
Okay, here's the thing. Good encryption is difficult to break the way people normally think of "breaking" encryption. RSA, AES, Blowfish, PGP/GPG- these were not only written by experts, but then they were tested, improved, and vetted by other experts. Breaking by brute force is possible, but not practical. When PGP first came out, it was estimated that a brute force attack would take longer than the Earth has left to live. However, encryption is difficult to implement properly. "Breaking" encryption is really about attacking the implementation, not the encryption itself. Is there a flaw that lets you find the key in memory? Is it susceptible to the Padding Oracle Attack? Can you access the PGP keyring and reverse the key hash using a rainbow table? These are some of the ways encryption is "broken".