Re: A89: Re: Re: PR Hit -- Those bastards
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Re: A89: Re: Re: PR Hit -- Those bastards
if you think you can brute force a 256bit key, you're crazy.
you said that brute forcing a 56bit key would take a few years? well...
a 256bit key would take 2^(256-56) times longer to crack!
--robin
Zeromus Mog wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Serial <Serial@earthlink.net>
> To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 9:22 PM
> Subject: A89: Re: PR Hit -- Those bastards
>
> >
> > As for that 3rd option under unrealistic. There is a possibility to that
> > though.
> > My comp spends months at a time up and 90% of that time it's idle on irc
> > or something to that end. It's a p3 500 with 128 meg of ram ... if we ALL
> > devoted our idle time to crack it we could have it in a few months *maybe*
> > I know the 56bit keys take years sometimes but it's worth our idle time to
> > try. If someone would write a program to either randomly generate keys
> > and test them or use the brute force method I'd happily donate infinite
> > amounts of time to the cause. I think it's entirely possible to break it
> > and we may get lucky. And in the mean time we can get the best of the
> > best to break open the rom.
>
> Yeah. I got a PIII 550 right here! This sucker sits here doing nothing a
> LOT! If someone can make a background app that picks key ranges from a
> website that haven't been used yet, then my computer sat here and tried a
> bunch of codes while it was doing nothing... I could help make a dent in
> this! And if we got most people to do this...! Yeah it takes a long time,
> but who knows? We may get lucky...
>
> -Zero
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