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Quadratic speedup, IIRC - a 128-bit key can be found by brute force in (roughly) 2^128 steps by a normal computer, or 2^64 steps by a quantum computer. This applies to all brute force algorithms, so just make your keys and hashes twice as long as you think they should be, and you're good.


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