Give me the name of the crypto tool, i'll see what i can find out... And hilarious cartoon!
On Jun 30, 10:24 am, David Parry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30/06/2010, at 9:34 AM, Nicholas Jefferson wrote: > > >> I'd be even more interested if you talked about cryptanalysis techniques. > >> :-) > > In theory or in practice? [1] > > [1]http://xkcd.com/538/ > > Heh... hadn't seen that one. Very true. I always liked the 2000AD comic where > bands of muggers would kill people and chop off their hands and pull out > their eyes to access the super-secure fingerprint/retina scanners on > MegaCityOne ATMs. > > Surprisingly, I've got a remarkably legitimate need for cryptanalysis. > > A number of years ago, a good friend of mine died. He had been keeping a > journal, which he had encrypted, because he had lots of damning things to say > about everyone he knew. They weren't conspiratorial, just very personal > comments, I believe. Anyway, he said to one of his friends: "When I'm dead, > you should publish my diary. It'll be a hoot!" Anyway, he died quite > suddenly, and left no-one with the password. He claimed we should all be able > to figure out the password, anyway. Well, we couldn't. > > He was using some old crypto tool on Mac OS 9, whose only interface is this > crappy little GUI. I tried using AppleScript to script a dictionary attack, > but it was very brittle, and at any rate, I don't have a working OS 9 machine > left any more. > > It's quite likely that the encryption scheme is quite weak, and may be > brute-force crackable in reasonable time... but I know bugger-all about the > entire subject. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
