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February 28th, 2004, 01:14 AM
#31
Junior Member
yes, or some Korean Techie. Jeez, those guys are smart. And if your Korean and your on here, you totally rock!
Originally posted here by Syini666
Has any security system or encryption ever remained secure after the parent company issues such a challenge to the world? It seems every time someone makes a statement like this, it is invariably proven wrong in a few months or years. I wonder what MIT student will pull it off?
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February 28th, 2004, 04:44 PM
#32
To all other posters who didn't seem to understand the previous posting on the same subject in this thread:
- It's not about *whether* you can crack it, but crack it sufficiently quickly for anyone to care. If cracking some key takes 6 months on a government supercomputer, they won't be able to justify its use to crack any key (unless it belongs to Mr. Bin Laden himself and was used to encrypt something which definitely contains a list of 10,000 Al Qaeda members)
- The time scales even with government supercomputers for cracking these things by brute force make it pointless.
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On another note, if a government (Say the UK government for the sake of argument) *DID* discover a fundamental weakness in the algorithm that allowed the key to be quickly broken, it would *DEFINITELY NOT* tell anyone about it, much less attempt to claim the prize.
Those boys in GCHQ would keep it to themselves and quietly intercept everyone else's military traffic - whilst ensuring that their own could not be broken by the same method (That's if they're not too busy eavesdropping on the Secretary General of the UN http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3488548.stm )
Slarty
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February 28th, 2004, 09:06 PM
#33
Junior Member
People don't need to crack code like this and never have done. But in a comp seems like summin gd to look at and not to get in duke for it.
Who am i to question your motive?
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April 18th, 2004, 04:02 AM
#34
Banned
Days, months, years, it's only a matter of time. The ONLY unbreakable code is the one that hasn't been written yet.
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April 18th, 2004, 07:42 AM
#35
Every code is mathematically possible. The only unbreakable code is one that brute force can't decipher. Which we go back to our first theory.
On a side note, if this code cannot be desciphered by Brute Force. Cryptography will no longer exist...
Book review:
- Digital Fortress - 14.95 (book cover)
* "The NSA is being held hostage-not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence."
*You can't put it down!*
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April 18th, 2004, 04:33 PM
#36
Member
Digital Fortress is a good book (written by Dan Brown, author of the Da Vinci Code
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June 5th, 2004, 12:49 PM
#37
Junior Member
Re: "Code that can't be cracked" -- Toronto Star, January 19th 2004
Originally posted here by MsMittens
Well, so they claim. If you do crack it, you get a cool $1 Million CDN and a job. Full Article here
So, think you're up to the challenge?
You cannot generate true random numbers on a computer system. Point is, any type of algorithm you will ever devise will always be crackable.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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June 5th, 2004, 09:31 PM
#38
These people might have a chance if they decided to take on this project: http://www.distributed.net
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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