Talk:ERF - Revision history

SergeySW at 23:40, 30 July 2011

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DocMcCoy at 01:41, 17 March 2011

2011-03-17T01:41:46Z

Thought Process at 00:21, 17 March 2011

2011-03-17T00:21:36Z

DocMcCoy: Add comment about the blowfish encryption note

2011-03-15T03:47:19Z

Add comment about the blowfish encryption note

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Who in their right mind thinks that brute-forcing the Blowfish encryption will take "no more than 1 minute"?

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)

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	:: 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)		:: 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)
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		+	What's the difference between "2 Blowfish" and "3 Blowfish (Dragon Age 2 only)" encryptions? [[User:SergeySW\|SergeySW]] 23:40, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

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	: 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?). —[[User:Thought Process\|Thought Process]] 00:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)		: 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?). —[[User:Thought Process\|Thought Process]] 00:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
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		+	:: 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)

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	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)		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)
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		+	: 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?). —[[User:Thought Process\|Thought Process]] 00:21, 17 March 2011 (UTC)