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Maybe just writing 2^63 would have been easier to interpret than that huge number in the context of cryptography. (Unless you assume this targets a non-technical audience, which I doubt.)

Pretty impressive, though. And worrying, because if Google can do it, you know that state-level actors have been probably doing it for some time now (if only by throwing even more computing power at the problem).



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