Faramir wrote: > David Shaw escribió: >> On Apr 7, 2010, at 3:18 AM, Andre Amorim wrote: > >>> What type of encryption the WikiLeaks said to have broken? AES ? > ... >> I do not think that this is a break of any serious crypto, though. If >> someonecould arrange for AES or any other strong cipher to be broken simply >> by asking for it on a web site, this would be news. > > Right, I was interested on the subject too, and wondering what kind of > encryption could have been used to encrypt the file. I guess David is > right and the key chosen was too weak... but it would be nice to hear > about what was actually the method used to encrypt and how did they > break it.
There was a comment in Schneier's blog pointing to an article at http://www.sueddeutsche.de/ saying that it was a plain old run-of-the-mill dictionary attack of several million entries. *yawn* Not really crypto news -- John P. Clizbe Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=help Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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