FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives 486
benoliver writes to let us know that the FBI has failed to decrypt files of a Brazilian banker accused of financial crimes by Brazilian law enforcement, after a year of attempts. Five hard drives were seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha in July 2008. (The link is to a Google translation of the original article in Portuguese.) The article in English mentions two encryption programs, one Truecrypt and the other unnamed. 256-bit AES was used, and apparently both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it. No Brazilian law exists to force Dantas to produce the password(s).
Wrong dictionary. (Score:5, Funny)
...both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it
They should have used a Portuguese dictionary not an English one! Geeze! Folks are soooooo US centric!
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:5, Funny)
Fifty bucks says the password is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
They should publish it as a DVD (Score:5, Funny)
Reality Check (Score:4, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/538/
Re:US Laws? (Score:5, Funny)
The law of gravity. The feds hang you by your feet out a 5th floor window till you talk......
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:5, Funny)
...both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it
They should have used a Portuguese dictionary not an English one! Geeze! Folks are soooooo US centric!
I suggest using the OED. Place the subject's testicles on top of volume one*...
* If using a single-volume edition, open to the end of letter 'M'. Fair results can be had with the use of electronic editions, but the technique is not recommended.
Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? (Score:2, Funny)
No, they just need to send it to Wikileaks and tell them it's a video of waterboarding.
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:3, Funny)
Good luck with that. Even though goals are few and far between, in a game, there is an infinite number of ways of saying it...
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
etc.
Re:Wrong Agency (Score:3, Funny)
You never want to wait longer then the heat-death of the universe, and most of the time the length of a human life time is sufficient. Anything longer then that counts as never.
Re:Wrong Agency (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:5, Funny)
That would be GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLO, in Portuguese.
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
The XKCD for that [xkcd.com]
Re:weird (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, when did a little or a big violation of the Constitution ever stop a government with an agenda?
Re:They should publish it as a DVD (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Weakest link? (Score:3, Funny)
Surely there's many links, most of those weaker than the algorithm itself.
Guess not. Two governments have failed to break it. Hows that work with your belief that recovery will always be compromised by some 'link'?
They just didn't apply enough governments.
Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? (Score:5, Funny)
I take issue with your first statement. Luckily, there is an easy test to see what is and what isn't torture:
A claims that method X isn't torture, B says it is. Just have B apply Method X to A, until A confesses that he was wrong.
Re:Wrong dictionary. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, even a Portuguese dictionary would not have helped. You don't find "1234" in a dictionary.
Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? (Score:1, Funny)
You try to eat ice-cream for three days, see how good you feel.
Need English to Portugese dictionary (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How can they assume the wrong password though? (Score:3, Funny)