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On 23/07/2024 13:25, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-07-22, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>> On 7/22/24 21:17, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>> I'll argue that the technical security of the data on the wire is the
>>> same now as it was then.
>>
>> The math has not changed.
>>

No but the power available to crack it has changed. I seem to remember 
reading somewhere that encrypted data was being captured and saved with 
the expectation that it could be decrypted later, perhaps revealing 
passwords...

> 
> As far as you know. :-)
> 
> Simon.
>