December 2010
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“Сперва человек бессознательно и непроизвольно создает по своему образу бога, а...”
– Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach in «Сущность христианства»
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The clock is ticking on encryption
Today’s encryption algorithms can be broken. Their security derives from the wildly impractical lengths of time it can take to do so.
Let’s say you’re using a 128-bit AES cipher. The number of possible keys with 128 bits is 2 raised to the power of 128, or 3.4x10^38, or 340 undecillion. Assuming no information on the nature of the key (such as that the owner likes to use his or...
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— Is it possible to die? — It is possible to die!
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