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An encrypted cache of uncensored documents that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has circulated across the Internet may ensure that a huge array of secrets will be revealed even if the website is shut down or Assange is arrested.
Tens of thousands of supporters have downloaded the "insurance" file, which has been available since July, and it includes files on BP and Guantanamo Bay, The Sunday Times reported
Originally posted by Vortiki
reply to post by oozyism
Define a super-computer. I can assure you that putting 1k into a pc will not assure you the chance to crack that encryption. As for the billions of smart minds my theory is this: Those whom are intelligent enough to have successfully cracked the password for the file are also those intelligent enough to keep the information to themselves until it is needed. If someone truely supports Julian Assange they wouldn't play his trumph card for him.
The folks at Russian firm ElcomSoft are making headlines this week by releasing one of their brute force password cracking tools that uses nVidia graphic processing units to boost performance by 25 times.
A team of researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute is investigating whether passwords are now worthless, given the supercomputer-like performance now available to hackers using standard desktop graphics cards.
If someone truely supports Julian Assange they wouldn't play his trumph card for him.
AES permits the use of 256-bit keys. Breaking a symmetric 256-bit key by brute force requires 2128 times more computational power than a 128-bit key. A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×10 to the power of 51 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space
Originally posted by Cassey222
reply to post by oozyism
Truecrypt.com: Yes there is still software out there that will resist even Brute Force. Not even your 'super com-puder' would be able to break this code without extreme luck.