The title is funny, they even intentionally put "military grade" in there to make the sarcasm even more apparent. This is different from click bait, which I see as an intentional dark pattern.
I think it would be a far better headline if "military grade AES-1024" were put in scare quotes. Otherwise it just looks like clickbait and presumably keeps a lot of people from ever clicking on it.
I agree it is a click bait because I also thought - "huh AES-1024, military grade, let's see what it is" and only after clicking - "aww yeah military grade was just pouring gas over the joke"
Yes, I merely want to reiterate as clearly as possible that there's no such algorithm endorsed by NIST. AES is a standard, AES-1024 isn't one of the variants of that standard. For good reason.
Symmetric key sizes larger than 256 bits are pretty much universally snake oil.
> Symmetric key sizes larger than 256 bits are pretty much universally snake oil.
512, actually - some symmetric applications are vulnerable to collision or collision-like attacks, and a cosmological-scale attacker can theoretically get up to about 2^308[0] bit operations at current-ish cosmic microwave background temperatures, so 2^256 bit operations is just about plausible in worst case scenario planning.
But 256-bit keys are probably sufficient for any practical application, and that doesn't excuse 1024 anyway.
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You have: log2(1e80 amu c2 / k 3K ln(2))
# (mass of observable universe / landauer limit)
Definition: 307.99542