Re: Encryption - was Hello World

2014-12-22 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/22/2014 05:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Dave Angel wrote: I figure I must be misunderstanding something in your explanation, since a brute-force password guesser would seem to only need four billion tries to (probably) crack that. As to the assump

Re: Encryption - was Hello World

2014-12-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > I figure I must be misunderstanding something in your explanation, since a > brute-force password guesser would seem to only need four billion tries to > (probably) crack that. > > 1) Are you assuming that the cracker can read the source code, b

Encryption - was Hello World

2014-12-22 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/22/2014 12:25 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: There's one exception. Writing your own crypto is a bad idea if that means reimplementing AES... but if you want something that's effective on completely different levels, sometimes it's best to write your own. I had a project a while ago that needed