surprised http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/ wasn't linked.. Mr Assange has been rather newsworthy lately, too.
mark On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:28 AM, chris hulbert <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who. -- Chris Maeda -- 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.
