Comment by IAmBroom

9 days ago

Every castle wall can be broken with money.

How much money is required to decrypt a file encrypted with a 256-bit AES key?

  • How much person(s) who know the key will take to change country and don't work anymore?

    Or how much it is cost to kidnap significant one of key bearer(s)?

    I think, it is very reasonable sums for governments of almost any country.

    • I think you assume that encryption keys are held by people like a house key in their pocket. That's not the case for organizations who are security obsessed. They put their keys in HSMs. They practice defense in depth. They build least-privilege access controls.