Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:11:43PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/26/2009 05:34 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> >I have a naive question.
> >
> >While your brute force decryption is running, how do you determine
> >you have found the "one key" and decide it's time to stop?
> >
> >Among trillions of trillions, when do you know you've hit the
> >jackpot?
> >
> >The answer is probably obvious but I just don't see it.
>
> When you can decrypt the document with it?
You don't have access to the original unencrypted document to compare
your output/solutions with, obviously you wouldn't need to decrypt it in
the first place.. how do you know when you have successfully decrypted?
Thanks,
CJ
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