Jun 04
It’s a standard movie cliché: A hacker pounds away on his keyboard for 30 seconds to break a military-grade encryption scheme. Nevermind that in real life it would take 8.4 million CPU years to factorize a 1024-bit number in software. (Although the days of total security with 1024-bit RSA are coming to an end.)
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