Whats the point of encryption.

[Spud1200]

Why have encryption and what is the point of it when chances are it can be broken by the likes of GCHQ, NSA, FBI, and the likes of SOCA.

I do think you should make it as hard as possible but if your willfully doing wrong then in my opinion your F*d .

 

[carnageX]

It's not that encryption can't be broken, it's that it takes a lot of time to break high-level encryption. And with time, some data is irrelevent by the time that the encryption is broken meaning it's worthless to to whoever stole it in the first place.

2048-bit encryption takes a LONG time to break, even with very powerful hardware.

 

[Slacker]

most often the reason encryption is broken is because it wasn't implemented properly-

as caranageX pointed out it takes a lot of time to break encryption with good machines-

caranage or PP might be able to shed more light what kind of equipment that is./?

 

[Yami]

as caranageX pointed out it takes a lot of time to break encryption with good machines-

caranage or PP might be able to shed more light what kind of equipment that is./?

The types of equipment generally boil down to general-purpose computing resources, and specially-developed computing resources both being used in a brute-force attack. The first consists of off-the-shelf computer components - usually high-performance GPUs, while the second are "CPUs" specially developed to be highly accelerated at making specific calculations (you might've heard of similar products used for Bitcoin mining) which in this case relate to decryption.

That's just for brute-forcing though; many, many other techniques exist. This recent article from Ars Technica outlines a couple of them.

 

[setishock]

It's to keep noisy ****s out of your files...

 

[Spud1200]

It's to keep noisy ****s out of your files...