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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Slichter
No. Those charges were dropped.
He is wanted in the UK for jumping bail.
There is no confirmation of any extradition at this time. Only speculation.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Macenroe82
Not a chance. If I remember correctly the encryption on the insurance file is AES256.
It's just going to be a very long string of random characters.
To put things in perspective if you were trying to brute force the file; even if a quadrillion processors were doing a quadrillion decryptions every second, the universe would be long dead by the time you ran through every possibility.
originally posted by: BenutzerUnbekannt Just throwing this out there...
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: UKTruth
well there you go.
No report of extradition on this side of the pond yet. I have a news feed running in the background.
Washington Post
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange was arrested on behalf of U.S. authorities, British police say, citing extradition warrant
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask
Maybe you have more info than I have. If so provide it. Everything I've read says that it is impossible to brute force an AES256 encryption.
Admittedly I don't know a lot about encryption, but from what I can find AES256 is going to be a random string of 64 characters. That's a ridiculous number of possibilities. There's a reason this is the same encryption that the US uses for its most secret files.
TextAES permits the use of 256-bit keys. Breaking a symmetric 256-bit key by brute force requires 2128 times more computational power than a 128-bit key. Fifty supercomputers that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second (if such a device could ever be made) would, in theory, require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space.
He was arrested on orders from the US for extradition.
Might be Pamela Andersonand Kid Rock....
originally posted by: Briles1207
a reply to: gortex
Lets keep an eye on their insurance file.