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		snarf21 on Dec 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploi... Among other things, mostly encryption. Most of our current methods depends on P != NP. So no need for 0 days if you can just read at encrypted data as if it wasn't.

Dylan16807 on Dec 16, 2021 [–]

> Most of our current methods depends on P != NP.

Not really. They depend on guessing being slow. P, just P, can do slow. P can be bigger than the universe even with low values of n.

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