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minus-squareGlitterInfection@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThis requires local access to do and presently an hour or two of uninterrupted processing time on the same cpu as the encryption algorithm. So if you’re like me, using an M-chip based device, you don’t currently have to worry about this, and may never have to. On the other hand, the thing you have to worry about has not been patched out of nearly any algorithm: https://xkcd.com/538/
This requires local access to do and presently an hour or two of uninterrupted processing time on the same cpu as the encryption algorithm.
So if you’re like me, using an M-chip based device, you don’t currently have to worry about this, and may never have to.
On the other hand, the thing you have to worry about has not been patched out of nearly any algorithm:
https://xkcd.com/538/