Question

Because of Moore's Law, widely-used encryption programs currently employed by banks and ecommerce sites are now easily penetrated by brute-force attacks that can be employed by hackers using just a handful of simple desktop computers.True / False.

Answer 1

False

Step-by-step explanation:

Moore's law observes the principle that the computing speed and capability of computers doubles after every two years, because of increases in the number of transistors a microchip can contain. This increase in coputational power will rather help banks and e-commerce sites (the defenders) much more than it will help the attackers. This is so because cryptographic systems are designed so that a small amount of extra work by the defender leads to an much much greater amount of work for the attacker.