Zack
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I think you can safely assume that they won't be using an encryption key as small as the one they use today. After all they have a computer just as fast as yours so their key will be proportionally larger making it exponentially more difficult to crack. Realistically you should expect it to take 100 years of constant computing at least to break their encryption with a purely brute force method known plain text attack.
Assuming you don't already know what some of their encoded information is it would take much longer.
Of course this is assuming they are using an encryption scheme that doesn't have a flaw in it. You should consider checking to see what encryption scheme they are using and find out if someone has broken it already.
Assuming you don't already know what some of their encoded information is it would take much longer.
Of course this is assuming they are using an encryption scheme that doesn't have a flaw in it. You should consider checking to see what encryption scheme they are using and find out if someone has broken it already.