• voracitude@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Encryption is just locks and since locks can be opened it must be assumed they will be. For sensitive data, destruction is the only option.

      But yes, also encrypt your darn data.

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        4 hours ago

        That is assuming anyone still gives two hoots about your data by the time that lock can be cracked by anything that’s not a supercomputer

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          4 hours ago

          Your encryption might take the age of the universe to break with current computing hardware, but we wouldn’t be having this conversation if vacuum tubes were still a thing. 1024-bit DKIM used to be the gold standard, now it’s unusably weak and 2048-bit is king, due to advances in computing hardware.

          Are you really going to bet we don’t make faster computers in the next 20 years? Or that you’ll be aware an adversary can break your encryption the instant they have the capability?