Would such documents be protected by the DMCA? Let us say that instead these files were found on Enron computers up at auction. Does it make a difference? Could the reporters be prosecuted and convicted in either case?
Steve Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple of months ago, a Wall Street Journal reporter bought two > abandoned al Qaeda computers from a looter in Kabul. Some of the > files on those machines were encrypted. But they're dealing with > that problem: > > The unsigned report, protected by a complex password, was > created on Aug. 19, according to the Kabul computer's > internal record. The Wall Street Journal commissioned an > array of high-speed computers programmed to crack passwords. > They took five days to access the file. > > Does anyone have any technical details on this? (I assume that it's > a standard password-guessing approach, but it it would be nice to know > for certain. If nothing else, are Arabic passwords easier or harder > to guess than, say, English ones?) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
