http://datoolset.net/mw/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DocMcCoy 2026-09-07T14:48:32Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.25.6 http://datoolset.net/mw/index.php?title=Talk:ERF&diff=15983 2011-03-17T01:41:46Z

<p>DocMcCoy: </p> <hr /> <div>Who in their right mind thinks that brute-forcing the Blowfish encryption will take &quot;no more than 1 minute&quot;?<br /> <br /> Am I missing something here? As far as I can see, the checksum is the weakest point there. Still, 2^64 md5sum operations (worst-case) to brute-force the password from its checksum will take ''considerable'' more time than 1000 years, let alone 1 minute. From what I can see using a quick Google search, even using a dedicated FPGA won't get you into a reasonable time span. [[User:DocMcCoy|DocMcCoy]] 03:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)<br /> <br /> : As far as I can tell, scheme 2 blowfish has a huge restriction on what passwords can be (8 digit passwords), this severely limits what possible passwords there are (100000000 AFAIK?). &amp;mdash;[[User:Thought Process|Thought Process]] 00:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)<br /> <br /> :: Okay, that would indeed move it into the reasonably brute-forcable range. A very peculiar decision by BioWare... [[User:DocMcCoy|DocMcCoy]] 01:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)</div>

DocMcCoy http://datoolset.net/mw/index.php?title=Talk:ERF&diff=15980 2011-03-15T03:47:19Z

<p>DocMcCoy: Add comment about the blowfish encryption note</p> <hr /> <div>Who in their right mind thinks that brute-forcing the Blowfish encryption will take &quot;no more than 1 minute&quot;?<br /> <br /> Am I missing something here? As far as I can see, the checksum is the weakest point there. Still, 2^64 md5sum operations (worst-case) to brute-force the password from its checksum will take ''considerable'' more time than 1000 years, let alone 1 minute. From what I can see using a quick Google search, even using a dedicated FPGA won't get you into a reasonable time span. [[User:DocMcCoy|DocMcCoy]] 03:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)</div>

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