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Sure if you want to be pedantic. However even if you double the number of rounds, the number of operations required to brute force increases by only a factor of 2. Since the number of operations is likely to be a very large number already, such a change is insignificant and we can consider the brute force cost to be independent of the number of rounds which is usually a small integer.


The only difference between 1 and 2^128 is 128 small constant factors of 2.




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