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> state of the art encryption Encryption Is not rocket science. It's trivial to make encryption arbitrarily harder to crack by using larger keys. There is no practical limit to key sizes.

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Encryption is extremely hard to get right. Increasing key sizes does not matter if your scheme, protocol, padding, chaining mode, implementation, nonce values, randomness, key management, user interface, key agreement, key generation, IV generation, constants and settings, etc are done poorly - and it is difficult to get essentially every one of these right.

There is state of the art encryption. Encryption is not about key size.

> user interface Yeah, if you are implementing it for other users, you can be forced to put backdoors. All bets are off. I mean encryption for your own use. All you need is a hashing algorithm like sha256 and your key.

> randomness Why would you trust a computer with randomness. Take a picture, and hash it... Not so hard.

> 3rd party encryption is probably backdoored even in "state of the art" nsa employees hands. I doubt they trust their own employees. They know they probably have double agents around.

Here you very clearly illustrate that you do not understand cryptography at even a minimal level.

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