True, but if you could make bacteria-sized Turing machines from scratch, you could design their external surfaces to either be non-immunogenic (the biological equivalent of teflon), or make them able to detect and remove or destroy any antibodies that bind to them.
The bigger problem I see is enabling them to interact productively with their surroundings. Microsensors that measure glucose or oxygen levels already exist. But micromachines that can read and repair the sequence of the DNA inside a cell, without ripping the DNA (or chromosome or nucleus or cell) to shreds? I won't live to see it.
So let's assume that the government has a hypercluster of computers that are a billion billion times faster, en masse, than the ENTIRE distributed.net.
It would still take them 1e20/1e18=100 years to break _ONE_ 128 bit key.
2099: "Well, Fred, it took a hundred years, but we finally decoded the message! And those pesky Slashdotters thought they were so smart." "What does it say, Bill?" "It's printing out now... M... A... K... E... space... M... O... N... E... Y... space... F... A... S... T... space..."
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True, but if you could make bacteria-sized Turing machines from scratch, you could design their external surfaces to either be non-immunogenic (the biological equivalent of teflon), or make them able to detect and remove or destroy any antibodies that bind to them.
The bigger problem I see is enabling them to interact productively with their surroundings. Microsensors that measure glucose or oxygen levels already exist. But micromachines that can read and repair the sequence of the DNA inside a cell, without ripping the DNA (or chromosome or nucleus or cell) to shreds? I won't live to see it.
So let's assume that the government has a hypercluster of computers that are a billion billion times faster, en masse, than the ENTIRE
distributed.net.
It would still take them 1e20/1e18=100 years to break _ONE_ 128 bit key.
2099: "Well, Fred, it took a hundred years, but we finally decoded the message! And those pesky Slashdotters thought they were so smart."
"What does it say, Bill?"
"It's printing out now... M... A... K... E... space... M... O... N... E... Y... space... F... A... S... T... space..."
Isn't that the Gary Wright song they used in Wayne's World? "Oooo-oooh, Coooode Weaver, I believe we can make it through the ni-hiiight!"
Sorry.
"Bithead" is to computers as "Deadhead" is to the Grateful Dead, or "gearhead" is to cars. Not to be confused with the rock group Motorhead.