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Re:Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys by stiray on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:39AM (#33653256)
That's why you create a lengthy random key (that you know it cant be brute forced) and encrypt everything using it and symmetric encryption.

Than you store that random key encrypted with asymmetric algorithm.

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Re:Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys by LeifCarrotson on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:28AM (#33656093)
Shh, don't give them any ideas!
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Re:Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys by bluGill on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:47PM (#33660974)
If you have read anything at all about encryption written since 1997 (probably before, that is when I first started reading) you already knew that.
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Re:Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys by LeifCarrotson on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:17AM (#33670256)
If.

Most ransomware authors, I'd wager, have not been reading since before 1997.

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