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[–] Aux 1 points 7 months ago

The thing is that you actually CAN brute force modern encryption. It's just that this process will take thousands if not millions of years. The analysis of encryption safety is based on mathematical prediction on how long it will take to crack the data. But all and every encryption method can be brute forced.