I've always wondered if it would be possible to narrow down the list of potential passwords by computing the entropy of each password, and comparing it to the entropy of an encrypted file.
There's probably always a better way, but I'm a stupid bird and can't say.
There's probably always a better way, but I'm a stupid bird and can't say.
TWIRL & TWINKLE?
I seriously doubt the "anything they claim to have, what they actually have is ten years ahead of the public" meme.
The u.s. couldn't get a rocket to orbit before musk. Couldn't do proper semiconductor tech at scale (without adding asians as the secret ingredient) without the last 2-4 years of spinning up the hardware-engineering pipeline with the universities.
The best we have is about 9001 backdoors going to the Nth-level deep, like a rube-goldberg machine, sold, with tacit understanding, to five billion consumers, including foreign governments who knew what they were buying.
If theres a better way then building a giant coffin in utah, while jam packing it with parallel compute to the fucking gills like skynets cancerous overgrown mutant prototype, on glorified FPGAs putting out more heat than the sun all just to crack RSA et al, while calling it an "NSA datacenter"--if theres a better, faster way, I doubt we, meaning you, me, or even the NSA or alphabet org, would know about it.
America is braindead, even its institutions.
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