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FWIW symmetric encryption has been really solid for a long time.

DES, pretty much the first strong civilian encryption algorithm, is crackable due to brute-forcing the 56-bit key space, which has been pointed out as a security problem almost 50 years ago, but in terms of cryptanalysis it's doing ok.

AES will turn 25 soon and the best cryptanalyses today are like a factor four faster than brute-force (but require rather significant memory, which brute force doesn't), which is basically nothing.




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