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chatman on July 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Supercomputers: Obama orders world's fastest compu...

I think one of the primary motivations for doing this is to break cryptographic keys, and using that for surveillance and to hack into Chinese websites.

_nedR on July 30, 2015 [–]

Is this in the realm of feasibility for modern crypto? And what about past/current transmissions using older crypto.

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