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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by ErrantX on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @01:16PM (#1216243)
Depends on the exact encryption but from the sounds of the tweet ("$/CPU") it sounds like it could have been just brute forced.
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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by eli on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @08:38PM (#1217348)
Sure, but the obvious question: where did they find a secret military video protected by encryption that is weak enough to be bruteforced?
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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by JulianMorrison on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:30AM (#1217972)
You're assuming that military = supersecret. This from the same military that didn't even bother encrypting transmissions from Predator drones.
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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by danielharan on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @09:38PM (#1217447)
With enough $/CPUs, it's all weak.
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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by JeremyBanks on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @10:00PM (#1217486)
No, 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.
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Re:Wikileaks: Something is up by Frazzydee on Thursday March 25, 2010 @02:10AM (#1217855)
And, if it was distributed computing, presumably we'd have heard about it and wouldn't be having this conversation.
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