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Millions of terabyte disks of storage. Then repeat the attack a couple thousand times.

In cryptography, you don't want "ludicrously" infeasible, as in the NSA can just about afford the hardware and do it, you want astronomically infeasible.



And you want it to be so infeasible that even attacking a single message with perfect knowledge of all non-secrets is "astronomically infeasible".

Its not enough to just make it astronomically infeasible to attack everyone.




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