How did wikileaks decrypt that video?

[RabbieBurns]

Interesting discussion over at Slashdot...

 

Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | How Did Wikileaks Do It?

 

Makes you wonder, if a voluntary organisation like that can pool the resources to brute force military encryption, what the governments have probably been able to do for a long while...

[Theblacksheep]

Interesting discussion over at Slashdot...

 

Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | How Did Wikileaks Do It?

 

Makes you wonder, if a voluntary organisation like that can pool the resources to brute force military encryption, what the governments have probably been able to do for a long while...

 

Thanks to those who donate $cpu

 

Twitter / WikiLeaks: Finally cracked the encryp ...

 

 

Shocking video, usually gets one column in the newspapers, even when journos get shot.

 

"Pickup the gun."

[dwhyte85]

Other projects have used volunteer CPU time but never something of this calibre nor potentially something they can get in trouble for, I don't think the US will take this lightly... they have serious beef with wikileaks as it is, they will make/find a scapegoat.

 

Good on wikileaks, terrible video - needed to be shown to the world. I would love to see what happened in the friendly fire cases based on the content of this.

[PiqueABoo]

if a voluntary organisation like that can pool the resources to brute force military encryption

 

The first time Julian Assange (the key wikileaks bloke) came to my attention it was on crypto lists way back and he was touting a relatively novel idea for back then called Plausibly Deniable Encryption... it could all be one big anonymity protecting smokescreen, but if not then I'd assume the encryption was conventional i.e. not some top-secret special "military" stuff.

[Cools]

Look up GPU hacking.. if you replace a MOD server that hacks with a GPU server you could BF hack in hours not months.

 

MD5 GPU hacking

http://3.14.by/en/md5

Edited April 9, 2010 by Cools