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Q The First Timelord
Q The First Timelord asked in Computers & InternetSecurity · 3 years ago

Would the invention of time travel make modern encryption obsolete with any encryption breakable by brute force over a long enough time?

Want to break security, send it back in time a trillion years then have it process from then...

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  • Bye
    Lv 7
    3 years ago
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    Yes.

  • PoohBearPenguin
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    No, you'd simply create encryption with so many bits, that it would take longer than the life of the universe to brute force it - even if you used millions of the universe's most powerful computers.

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