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I heard 10 years ago that the NSA builds massive data centers to collect encrypted data they could not decrypt at the time.
Is there anything know if this approach has resulted in some results on a „we broke the encryption“ level?
Paragone@Paragone@hear-me.social
@m@lgbtqia.space Algorithms fail, as more is learned about them, & also as more is learned about the math they rely-on..
Statistically, it'd be inevitable that storing stuff for future cracking, would work..
..except that the amount-of-stuff being produced keeps increasing, & therefore the amount-of-storing would keep growing exponentially, during this Punctuation ( in evolution ) between the Industrial-Revolution & whatever it is that is the resultant-Equilibrium which exists in the next century ( IF this-world survives its Great Filter, that-is, & that's not looking likely, at the moment ).
So, if they only save the high-value uncracked stuff, then .. yeah, that tactic definitely does make sense.