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Is encryption breakable?

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Is encryption breakable?

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Yes. All encryption theoretically is breakable. Some have no known weaknesses and must be “brute force attacked” to achieve compromise. The important thing to remember is that many algorithms take an extremely long time to compromise (thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years). For instance, if an algorithm will take 1000 years to compromise using estimated speeds of technology 100 years from now, you can feel comfortable knowing that your bank pin number information will be of no use, by the time the encryption on the file that stores your pin number is cracked. In otherwords it would be 1100 years before your information is viewable. If a weakness is found in an encryption algorithm you are using, immediately copy your data from the weak encryption used to a container with a known strong encryption. Relative Strength Comparisons of Encryption Algorithms [http://security.resist.ca/crypt.shtml] SSL [Quoted from the online report “Securing Your Web Site for Business” available f

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