• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if someday in the next thousand years someone figures out how to reverse the SHA256 hash function or something. (And I know there’s an infinite number of possible theoretical inputs that can result in the same hash, but maybe they’d just pick the shortest or something)

    RSA seemed pretty strong until shors algorithm and all the other quantum nonsense came around, and I don’t think they’ve got enough quantum computers yet to render it powerless, but its also not unreasonable to think that eventually all modern encryption will be obsolete