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by tptacek 3778 days ago
I think it's important to keep in mind that crypto is probably not on a Moore's-Law-like track, so that the ciphers we're relying on today will probably be trivial to break in 20 years. In fact, the things that make 80s-90s crypto breakable mostly aren't algorithmic weaknesses but rather implementation flaws that weren't well understood then but are now.

Quite a bit of 90s crypto remains unbreakable, because the data is at rest and will never be put back into a circumstance that exposes the weaknesses of its cryptosystem.

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The Russian counterpart to the DES, GOST 28147-89, still stands to this day. A 64-bit block cipher with a 256-bit key, designed in the 70s.