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Ouch, relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
by shrikant 14y ago
Ouch, relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/
- nine_k 14y agoIn Russian there's a semi-joking term 'thermorectal cryptanalysys', inspired by a number of gangster stories and movies, which involves a hot soldering iron and... yes, you guessed right. Beats a compute cluster hands down. This is why encryption is good against a foreign government, but not as good against your own.
- psionski 14y agoA brute force attack: you apply brute force to the user. A dictionary attack: see brute force attack, but with Oxford's English Dictionary.