Originally Posted by
PhlyingRPh
Excellent^ Don't intelligence agencies have ways to get the information out even if you don't provide them witth the password?
They're good, but not that good.
There isn't a computer in existence that could brute force even 128 bit AES at this time in a reasonable amount of time (like 1 lifetime), let alone 256 bit. If weakness is found in the encryption algorithm or if they get lucky with a dictionary attack, they might be able to get in much sooner.
If the chip physically fries, there's not much they can do. Even if they can somehow resurrect the chip, they'd still have to break the encryption.