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Originally Posted by
waffles_jd
Time will end before technology to handle that kind of work exists.
While the majority of your post is correct, that last statement isn't.
I can remember when it took a day to generate the mandelbrot set, yet a modern PC can generate the same set in less than one second.
The simple fact is that encryption today will become useless tomorrow. New methods of encryption have to be developed to keep up with processing power.
I have also been a member of the Distributed Net projects, and have seen how these decryption problems have got tougher due to newer, and faster, processors powering our machines. When I first joined, they were doing simple md5 algorithms, but nowadays they are hitting much more complicated routines.
The simple fact is that something that could take several years today, make only take several weeks in a few years time, or even days, or hours.
In response to what a lot of people have said, about brute forcing, if an invite requires the inviter to verify, then brute forcing is null. It's like picking a lock, only to find the family home.