WikiLeaks Crackers

Grant Olson kgo at grant-olson.net
Wed Apr 7 22:41:45 CEST 2010


On 4/7/2010 3:18 AM, Andre Amorim wrote:
> What type of encryption the WikiLeaks said to have broken? AES ?
> 
> Source:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/07wikileaks.html
> 
> ps.> I thought it was april fool.


http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1610792&cid=31765168

According to the above thread, it was encrypted via OpenSSL with a
(presumably weak) passphrase, not public/private key encryption.

Thread might be a hoax.  There's no way I'm downloading the encrypted
version of the file to verify the headers.


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