30: The Expected Heat Death of the Universe

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Modern DKIM uses 2048-bit keys. With current mathematical understanding, they are not brute-force breakable before the expected heat death of the universe. Modern cryptographic algorithms don’t fall to brute force, however. Mathematicians nibble at them, discovering weak point after weak point until, eventually, someone figures out how to break them in a reasonable time. Computer speed might not be accelerating the way it did a couple decades ago, but p...