06-14-2015, 02:35 PM
Just some numbers:
Cracking AES-128 at a speed of 10^18 tries per second (which is probably much faster than even the NSA can afford) takes an awful lot of time:
2**128/1000000000000000000/60/60/24/365
10790283070806.016
The result is in years.
Now assuming not AES but the password was cracked. Bruteforcing a 16 character random alphanumeric password still would take over one million years at a speed of 10^18 (which is again, an extremely high number):
95**16/1000000000000000000/60/60/24/365
1395632.5109454773
Besides that, the NSA which is arguably the best funded organization out there is probably the last organization that's actually interested in cracking those files. They know they don't like the content, no matter what exactly it is. They gain nothing from cracking those files.
Cracking AES-128 at a speed of 10^18 tries per second (which is probably much faster than even the NSA can afford) takes an awful lot of time:
2**128/1000000000000000000/60/60/24/365
10790283070806.016
The result is in years.
Now assuming not AES but the password was cracked. Bruteforcing a 16 character random alphanumeric password still would take over one million years at a speed of 10^18 (which is again, an extremely high number):
95**16/1000000000000000000/60/60/24/365
1395632.5109454773
Besides that, the NSA which is arguably the best funded organization out there is probably the last organization that's actually interested in cracking those files. They know they don't like the content, no matter what exactly it is. They gain nothing from cracking those files.