Lost Passwords Lost Fortunes

[movingaverage]

or write it on a sticky note

 

[Clubber Lang]

Two tries left to get 200MM!
Can’t someone hack it? Like the best hacker group around and tell them they get half if they crack it??

 

[BMK]

Can’t someone hack it? Like the best hacker group around and tell them they get half if they crack it??

Ironkey uses military grade encryption. The only known way to hack it is by brute force, which means trying all possible passwords. With AES-256 or anything in that class of encryption, the brute force process takes hundreds of years...

BMK

 

[Pekelo]

Come on people, this is an IRS play, not Unfortunate Events of Stupid Cryptoguy.

"Seems convenient just as he's getting sued..."

"Of course, if I was under investigation, I would "lose" my keys as well"

"You know what else he lost though? The first 32,000 block headers of Ripple's ledger effectively making that data lost forever so that you can't audit who got gifted how many billion XRP and we have to trust claims that some benevolent open source developers gifted the founders and Ripple everything"

"technically it was lost in 2011. Ergo the realized price of merely 20 grand"

from r/cryptocurrency

 

[userque]

Ironkey uses military grade encryption. The only known way to hack it is by brute force, which means trying all possible passwords. With AES-256 or anything in that class of encryption, the brute force process takes hundreds of years...

BMK

If he can remember some facts about the password, the possibilities can be greatly reduced.

For example, he may know for sure that he didn't use symbols ... or caps ... or that it was at least 6 characters long, but less than 10. Etc.

 

[Overnight]

If he can remember some facts about the password, the possibilities can be greatly reduced.

For example, he may know for sure that he didn't use symbols ... or caps ... or that it was at least 6 characters long, but less than 10. Etc.

Even if his password is just lower-case letters and 6 letters long, it's over 300 million possibilities! With two tries left, he's screwed.

 

[userque]

Even if his password is just lower-case letters and 6 letters long, it's over 300 million possibilities! With two tries left, he's screwed.

We were discussing a brute force attack.

Such an attack would not utilize those last two 'tries.'

 

[Overnight]

We were discussing a brute force attack.

Such an attack would not utilize those last two 'tries.'

You mean an attack on the encrypted data itself? Good luck with 256-bit encryption!

 

[userque]

Even if his password is just lower-case letters and 6 letters long, it's over 300 million possibilities! With two tries left, he's screwed.

The two tries are used if you go through the front door. A brute force attacks goes through the 'back door,' and works on a copy of the data.

It tries multiple possible passwords and checks whether the data becomes 'readable' after each attempt.

Once the correct password is found, we take that, and walk through the front door.

 

[userque]

You mean an attack on the encrypted data itself? Good luck with 256-bit encryption!

Yes.

Tell us how good 256 bit encryption is if the password is 6 digits, all lower case?