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by pdonis 807 days ago
> I'm not talking about cracking a key. I'm talking about creating a key from seed 0, then 1, then 2, etc. etc., until you have an index of every possible key.

Computationally the two are the same: cracking a key generated by a secure algorithm is equivalent to generating all possible keys and checking to see which one matches.