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Not at all into cryptography, but I did some research last time this was posted. Came to the conclusion that the only chance anyone has would involve: a) Hunti
by koromak 3y ago
Not at all into cryptography, but I did some research last time this was posted. Came to the conclusion that the only chance anyone has would involve:
a) Hunting down and interviewing retired NSA employees
b) Spending something like 12K (the prize pool) smashing it with computation, and maybe an AI model to generate useful passphrases.
- bluGill 3y agoThe person who created those strings died so you won't be able to hunt him down. He was asked just before he died about them and couldn't remember what he used (or in conspiracy mode he wouldn't say)
- mlyle 3y agoThe guy who generated them said he believed the phrase was a variation of "Give Jerry a raise" --- but he couldn't find/recreate it himself. It does seem ripe for LLM use: have LLMs generate lots of variations/templates that then you expand with different formatting, numbers at the end, etc.