[ars]

That's an interesting point - as computers get faster at negotiating ssl ciphers, computers also get faster at breaking ssl ciphers.

I do hope that the factor on those two numbers is not the same though! So eventually one will win.

[pmjordan]

Complexity of breaking (presumably, prime factorisation in the case of RSA) is exponential wrt key size, whereas encryption has polynomial complexity. We'll be fine.

[seabee]

Would the codebreakers winning really be a better outcome than a constant arms race? :)