lol, you make a good point BB.

Most people do not use passwords like you posted, and if they did, it would make cracking harder to do. Brute force cracking is a last resort, and does take a long time simply because of the shear number of possibilities. I would asume that the stuff that was cracked so fast was cracked by the dictionary method, or the key was found within the information obtained. Who knows, they may have beaten it out of someone as well.

For what you are doing, I would assume that it is going to use RSA, which is far superior to ASE. Cracking RSA would require much more time, and many governments have tried to pass legislation to limit its use. Or to make the keys available to other agencies.

Thankfully that hasn't happened, but they are at it again.

People are pushing the SOPA thing again, and you can bet that they will sneak other things in it later. The base idea ot SOPA is a great idea. It will help our economy, cut down on piracy etc. But giving the Justice Department complete control over it might not be. Considering that they are one of the the ones that wanted access to the encryption keys to begin with.

And just to get you thinking....

As far as times for cracking ASE? The record for 40 bit is .0002 seconds. and that was set years ago by a team bent on proving the flaws in DES.

These people that did it are here: https://www.eff.org/

TSWG has had software for cracking 256 bit for years, with this http://www.tswg.gov/subgroups/isf/electronic-evidence/products.html (with their Counter-Encryption Tool)  I have no idea why they even posted info on it. At least they took some of the info off of the site that really should not have been there to begin with.

How long do you think your password would hold up to a system like that?

I would guess "not long" would be the correct answer.

Do you actually think they would still get funding if none of it worked? I think not.

And if it didn't work, no one would use it.

For a tool that the Department of Defense funds, and most branches of the US government now use because it works, anyone that thinks it doesn't work is misinformed.

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