FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt

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FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3228 ... truecrypt/
The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation.

The Bureau had been called in by the Brazilian authorities after the country's own National Institute of Criminology (INC) had been unable to crack the passphrases used to secure the drives by suspect banker, Daniel Dantas.

Brazilian reports state that two programs were used to encrypt the drives, one of which was the popular and widely-used free open source program TrueCrypt. Experts in both countries apparently spent months trying to discover the passphrases using a dictionary attack, a technique that involves trying out large numbers of possible character combinations until the correct sequence is found....

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Perhaps the FBI should farm the decryption job out to Lulz Security...
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:lol:

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Putting the boot in when someone's down.

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