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On Friday 27 June 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Numbers don't lie. |
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> and this is why nobody uses brute force. |
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> There a better ways to crack keys. NSA has tons of experts in |
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> mathematics and cryptoanalysis. Plus very sophisticated hardware. I |
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> am sure for most ciphers they use something much more efficient than |
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> stupid brute force. |
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Like what for example? Decent algorithms tend to have no known published |
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weaknesses and their output is randomly distributed. Which brings us |
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back to relying on stupid user input errors (Debian, anyone?) |
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If anyone does know of weaknesses in the good algorithms, they are |
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certainly not telling. I doubt anyone could ever keep that genie in a |
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bottle for very long as it would be the mathematical coup of the |
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millenium. |
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So the reasonable real-world view of this to me is that not even the |
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almighty NSA can crack it yet. I'm betting they still use good |
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old-fashioned tried-and-proven social engineering and hosepipe |
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techniques for their successes. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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