Was thinking about things today, as I sometimes do, and was thinking about PGP encryption, the known and loved standard of the DarkNet and beyond for years. I was wondering why it stands for 'Pretty Good Privacy' and how easy it is to actually crack. I always assumed that it provides some 'pretty good' encryption but if GCHQ/NSA/XYZ really wanted to read it they could, it's just not worth their time to try and crack all these messages.
Turns out that is sort of the case but it arguably provides more than just 'pretty good' privacy. In fact it would take $100 trillion worth of computing power and 53,951,415,354 thousand years to brute force decrypt a single PGP message.
Here's the article/blog if you're interested. I think we should give PGP some more props for keeping our info safe!
it takes 5 mins and a wrench to brute force a PGP message
https://xkcd.com/538/