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"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981


What exactly are you trying to imply with this quote? It seems like you're suggesting that Schneier's quote may become infamous one day should 256-bit key cryptography become crackable, which it might, but you say nothing as to how Schneier's argument could ever be wrong. He is saying that thermodynamically speaking, brute-forcing 256-bit key symmetric cryptography is unlikely to ever be possible. Do you think that to be false?


"1.21 × 1041 ergs/year ought to be enough for anybody."

Let me just live to see the day.


Gates never said that.




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