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Retr0idtoday at 12:43 AM1 replyview on HN

harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks aren't much of a concern for modern symmetric cryptography. heck, even known-broken ciphers like rc4 aren't easy to break in a non-interactive setting with modest ciphertext sizes and no key reuse.


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belochtoday at 12:48 AM

It all depends on who the message needs to be secure from, and for how long.

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