Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeP
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Any encryption you can accomplish with $5.00 of hardware is not going to be airtight by modern standards.
|
That's so ... valueist ... monetarist ... costist ... |
In a way it is. Brute force attacks are so cheap these days that real encryption, something that takes a significant amount of time to break, takes a nontrivial amount of work to encode in the first place. If something cheap and stupid can do it, it didn't take that much work.