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I would like to hear more about this encryption cracking, which would seem to be an impressive feat. Anyone have any background?
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
I would like to hear more about this encryption cracking, which would seem to be an impressive feat. Anyone have any background?
- there 17y agorelated to this? http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/insurgents-hack-predator-video-feed-26-software http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/insurgents-...
- gwern 17y agoIf it were, why would there be any need for brute-forcing it? Isn't the point of that story the lack of encryption?
- ErrantX 17y agoDepends on the exact encryption but from the sounds of the tweet ("$/CPU") it sounds like it could have been just brute forced.
- eli 17y agoSure, but the obvious question: where did they find a secret military video protected by encryption that is weak enough to be bruteforced?
- danielharan 17y agoWith enough $/CPUs, it's all weak.
- JeremyBanks 17y agoNo, it's not. The amount of computing power that would be needed to break the kind of encryption we should expect them to be using would be immense. It would likely be impossible, or at least impractically expensive. This is a very interesting part of the story.
- Frazzydee 17y agoAnd, if it was distributed computing, presumably we'd have heard about it and wouldn't be having this conversation.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoYou're assuming that military = supersecret. This from the same military that didn't even bother encrypting transmissions from Predator drones.