Any encryption in the Bin Laden intel that NSA can not break

[gevorg]

NSA has backdoor access to every password protection mechanism. No brute force needed.

 

[Joseph F]

There's some forms of encryption that are unbreakable without the key.

Other than one time pads, What types of encryption are not breakable without the key?

 

[FallenHero]

Other than one time pads, What types of encryption are not breakable without the key?

With current tech? Or theoretically?

 

[Fox5]

NSA has backdoor access to every password protection mechanism. No brute force needed.

That'd be bad security practice, on account that someone else could find the backdoor. Traditionally, the US gov just kept exported crypto down to something that was easily crackable, but I think that restrictions been lifted with the advent of public key cryptography.

I think people are right, AES-256 will never be cracked by any amount of computing power we as a society will produce for the near future. That said, the amount of password guesses needed to just log into his computer is probably far less than the amount of key guesses needed to break the crypto.

 

[SoulAssassin]

never saw the release of the encrypted notes found on a dead guy that the fbi couldn't crack? they posted it on their website hoping someone else could.

let me look for a link

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911

They look like Microsoft activation keys to me. Maybe it's not a clue to his murder but he just stole a bunch of keys. Someone try to activate one and see if it works.

 

[dennilfloss]

A security expert on Radio-Canada just said that most of the encryption codes used by terrorists are very simple. These folks simply don't expect to get caught.

 

[Joseph F]

With current tech? Or theoretically?

Theoretically.

 

[Turin39789]

Theoretically.

It goes to 11.

 

[ProfJohn]

The CIA can't even decode the statue that has been sitting in front of their HQ for 20 years.... losers.

 

[Nintendesert]

Or he's like every other American with their data and didn't even bother to encrypt any of it.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Is there anything we got out of the compound that is so deeply encrypted that even the NSA can't break it? Given time and the resources is there anything they can not crack?

You can not decode a "One Time Pad".

 

[SphinxnihpS]

The CIA can't even decode the statue that has been sitting in front of their HQ for 20 years.... losers.

The fourth figure, the one they can't figure out, is probably One Time Pad type encryption, and will never be decoded.

 

[ussfletcher]

The fourth figure, the one they can't figure out, is probably One Time Pad type encryption, and will never be decoded.

If they repeat a section of the one time pad, then you can break it (for the overlapped portions)

 

[SSSnail]

Google > Diffie-Hellman.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

If they repeat a section of the one time pad, then you can break it (for the overlapped portions)

It will give you a clue, but the messages on them are usually short, and "one time" so it might take several using the same pad with several different overlaps to really crack one.

A big part of cracking Enigma in WWII was because of overlaps (known repeated messages with the same code group), but that was far from the absolute encryption of a one time pad, and it took many repats for us to start understanding it, and the grunt work was done by the firt computers (reels).