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3 reasons

1. it's reasonable to assume the NSA is a decade ahead and has more computers than academia.

2. you want your secrets to last a decade (or longer)

3. the total amount of data you're encrypting per client is only 256 bits anyway (the size of a symmetric key) so the absolute performance impact is relatively minimal



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