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Uncrackable Bin Laden Hard Drives

Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue May 03, 2011 7:26 pm

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepe ... s-har.html

US seizes Osama bin Laden's hard drives

The US Navy SEAL team that found and killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday have recovered a number of computer drives and disks, dubbed "the mother lode of intelligence" by one US official speaking to Politico.com. Intelligence operatives are now apparently sorting through the digital haul, but what might they find?

It all depends on whether or not bin Laden's data is encrypted, as modern encryption techniques are mathematically uncrackable if used correctly. Data encoded using the AES-256 encryption scheme would take longer than the age of the universe to crack, which is why the US National Security Agency (NSA) endorses it for protecting documents classified "Top Secret".

We don't know whether bin Laden or other al-Qaeda members used AES-256, but it's certainly possible. Last year the organisation supposedly published a magazine called Inspire that contained an article on using a piece of encryption software known as Asrar al-Mujahideen 2.0, which uses AES-256 along with other encryption methods.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 03, 2011 7:28 pm

"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue May 03, 2011 7:32 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 03, 2011 7:34 pm

Crumple wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room. :prof: Why do I bother. :sigh:
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Post by Ian » Tue May 03, 2011 7:36 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Crumple wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room. :prof: Why do I bother. :sigh:
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I understood it. ;)

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 03, 2011 7:37 pm

Ian wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Crumple wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room. :prof: Why do I bother. :sigh:
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I understood it. ;)
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue May 03, 2011 7:38 pm

In this case you'd have to decide which wife... :levi:
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue May 03, 2011 7:39 pm

Ian wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Crumple wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
:drinktype:
It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room. :prof: Why do I bother. :sigh:
:console:
I understood it. ;)
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Post by klr » Tue May 03, 2011 7:39 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:In this case you'd have to decide which wife... :levi:
Beat me to it ...

... but probably not the one he reputedly used as a human shield. :what:
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Post by Twoflower » Tue May 03, 2011 7:41 pm

klr wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:In this case you'd have to decide which wife... :levi:
Beat me to it ...

... but probably not the one he reputedly used as a human shield. :what:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue May 03, 2011 7:42 pm

Crumple wrote:
Ian wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Crumple wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:"Wife's birthday, son's birth month, daughter's birth year." Easy.
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It's a quote from Clear and Present Danger. The young computer jock at Langley breaks the cipher before Jack Ryan gets out of the room. :prof: Why do I bother. :sigh:
:console:
I understood it. ;)
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Gee, Wrinkle, you don't think that could have been based on a real event? I know Eugene Spafford would love the job of attacking those disks. He mentioned Clear and Present Danger in a seminar once. I thought I'd bust laughing when he said, "I still don't know what took him so long." :smug:
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Post by Geoff » Tue May 03, 2011 7:51 pm

Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
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Post by Twoflower » Tue May 03, 2011 7:57 pm

Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...
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Post by Geoff » Tue May 03, 2011 8:10 pm

Twoflower wrote:
Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...

Good point.
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Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue May 03, 2011 8:14 pm

Geoff wrote:
Twoflower wrote:
Geoff wrote:Probably just full of porn anyway. I know he was a member on here for a while...
Chuck Jones hasn't been on since Friday...

Good point.
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Your not suggesting he was Bin Laden? :fp:
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