Why Breaking SSH Is Nearly Impossible 🔐

SSH relies on asymmetric encryption like RSA, and the math behind it is on a level that modern computers simply can’t touch. RSA works by multiplying two massive prime numbers together and the only way to break it is to reverse that process. Sounds simple… until you try it.

A standard RSA-2048 key is built from a number with 617+ decimal digits.
Factoring it would require exploring more possibilities than the number of atoms in the universe. Even the fastest supercomputers would need thousands to millions of years to crack a single key because factorization scales exponentially, not linearly.

That’s why SSH is considered one of the strongest shields in cybersecurity not because it's “unhackable,” but because the math behind it makes brute-forcing practically impossible.