From the course: Ethical Hacking: Cryptography
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- [Instructor] Now, there are a lot of strategies for attacking cryptography, and you'd think because there are so many strategies for attacking it, that it must be relatively easy to break, right? Well, it's actually quite the opposite. When cryptography is done right, it's actually very hard to break. And one of the really key differentiators that decides how hard it is to break cryptography is the key length. Recall, a simple key of 256 bits can actually count up to one times e to the power 77. It is a very large key space. So here's some examples of attacks on cryptography that have actually happened. So Distributed.net built what they call these RC hacking challenges. So first they did a challenge where they were attempting to crack an RC5-56 bit. They did this by using 26,000 processors and it took them 250 days to crack it. So next they attempted to crack RC5-64 bit. Using 331 processors, it took 1,700 days…
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