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And what kind of crappy security were they encoding those files with that the foreigners could crack? Maybe it was encryption that the NSA put a back door into,
by TwoBit 11y ago
And what kind of crappy security were they encoding those files with that the foreigners could crack? Maybe it was encryption that the NSA put a back door into, which means they are now getting their just desserts. It sucks to be back doored, NSA, doesn't it?
- gleenn 11y agoGiven enough cpu time, and knowing you'll find the identity of spies, I think China and Russia would be more than capable to crack quite a bit of encryption even with brute force.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoYeah... That's not how encryption works. If I use AES-256 to encrypt "I'll be late for dinner" padded with a paragraph of Lorem Ipsum, even the US/Russia/China are incapable of breaking that even in a hundred years of supercomputer crunching. Unless they have a backdoor of course.
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- Radim 11y agoWell if you start out by assuming you know the secret message already, then there is exactly 1 possibility and "cracking it" takes exactly 0 seconds.
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- vidarh 11y agoThat's just not how it works. To confirm you have the right message, you will need to guess the key and confirm it results in the same encrypted message. Note that he said (and I misread this too) to pad the message with lorem ipsum, not to use lorem ipsum as the key. If you want to go the other way, and guess the plaintext and then confirm it, you've now made what was an "impossible" problem massively more difficult.
- mozumder 11y agoThey could be encrypting everything with one-time passwords but it still wouldn't matter if the journalists decide to send emails containing open text passwords...