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Old 1st March 2007, 11:20   #45  |  Link
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Originally Posted by HyperHacker View Post
Yeah, that's the problem with brute-forcing keys, it takes forever. A 128-bit key can be one of 2^128 = 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38 keys; even if you could arrange a bunch of computers to test one billion keys per second, it'd take about 10782897524556318080696.079785274 years to try them all.

Of course you could get lucky and it ends up being the first key tried... or you could get unlucky and it ends up being the last. Statistically, odds are this solar system won't still exist by the time we find the key at that rate.
Really putting it into perspective there HyperHacker!!

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