Re: Interpol cracks encryption in 2 weeks

"Martha Adams" <mhada@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Doughboy" <anon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080516/twl-venezuela-colombia-rebels-interpol-4bdc673.html
> This doesn't say anything, nor does the short thread that
> follows it.  Nobody seems to notice this.  Is the sci.crypt
> audience so much less than I hoped for?


They probably didn't bother reading the linked news. The news says they 
verified the authenticity based on forensic analysis, how this becomes
"two 
weeks" and "10 computers" I have no idea, but I will agree that any such 
attack mounted in such a way is likely to be a password attack, not 
cryptographic. Seems like rather a non-news for sci.crypt.
                Joe