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belochtoday at 12:48 AM1 replyview on HN

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


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Retr0idtoday at 1:00 AM

Sure, but for symmetric ciphers it's not hard to hit the "by anyone, for my lifetime" threshold. NIST does not define a sunset date for AES-256, for example.