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So with all of this wikileaks nonsense going on, it made me really curious exactly what's in that insurance package that was released in 2013.
It's obviously not feasible to crack AES 256 with an individual's resources, but then I remembered distributed computing is a thing.
How hard would it be to set up something like the SETI@home project to crack a file like that? Also I get that the efficiency of such a project is entirely dependent on how many users there are, but could this make cracking it feasible (ie, would it still take something like a million computers a decade or some such)? Additionally, is this even the kind of problem you can attack using distributed computing?
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>>57126802
Bump
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Why do you want to kill assange, OP? If we crack his insurance he's dead for sure.
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>>57127057
His time is basically up anyway, plus he's just a mouthpiece.
>>57127058
Sorry, I refreshed and didn't see my other bump
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Already exists.
https://www.distributed.net/Main_Page
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall97-papers/twyman-cracking.html
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>>57126802
>a decade
More like a few aeons.
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>>57126802
>It's obviously not feasible to crack AES 256 with an individual's resources, but then I remembered distributed computing is a thing.
You could use all the computers in the world to try and bruteforce AES 256 and you wouldn't be able to do it.
You should read up a bit more on encryption.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1x50xl/time_and_energy_required_to_bruteforce_a_aes256/
I know, it's leddit, but the numbers are interesting
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>>57127129
Good read famalam
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