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		beloch 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New 'negative light' technology hides data transfe... It all depends on who the message needs to be secure from, and for how long.

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Retr0id 1 day ago [–]

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.

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