Comments on: Digital Fortress http://rusty.in/archives/digital-fortress Just another WordPress site Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Anoop Sankar http://rusty.in/archives/digital-fortress#comment-270 Anoop Sankar Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:37:13 +0000 http://rustyshack.sig9.com/archives/digital-fortress/#comment-270 Yup. you are right., thought so then, now I know :) .. anyway thanks for commenting :) Yup. you are right., thought so then, now I know :) .. anyway thanks for commenting :)

]]> By: dogbertq8 http://rusty.in/archives/digital-fortress#comment-269 dogbertq8 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:54:06 +0000 http://rustyshack.sig9.com/archives/digital-fortress/#comment-269 I know this is an old post but just had to comment on this: "I can’t even think, how a computer (how “super” it may be) can crack any encrypted message without even knowing what the algorithm behind it is" TRANSLATR did a brute force hack to get the plaintext. The fact that isn't feasible is another story, but yes given access to astronomical computing power, it can be done. As a matter of fact, you don't need access to the underlying algorithm for most crypto attacks. I know this is an old post but just had to comment on this:

“I can’t even think, how a computer (how “super” it may be) can crack any encrypted message without even knowing what the algorithm behind it is”

TRANSLATR did a brute force hack to get the plaintext. The fact that isn’t feasible is another story, but yes given access to astronomical computing power, it can be done.

As a matter of fact, you don’t need access to the underlying algorithm for most crypto attacks.

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