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...there's nothing to crack here, so I find the title misleading. I would find articles such as "Cracking the ISBN code" or "Cracking the CRC32 code" equally m
by asymptotic 15y ago
...there's nothing to crack here, so I find the title misleading. I would find articles such as "Cracking the ISBN code" or "Cracking the CRC32 code" equally misleading.
To me, cracking implies breaking through a barrier intended to be opaque. Hence, Ross Anderson's paper on an attack on the hardware security modules in ATM machines to brute force a PIN for a given account in less than the full PIN space is, truly, an example of cracking:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-560.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-560.pdf