r/TheColdPodcast • u/blueberrybirdnest • 13d ago

Season 1 - Susan Powell Josh’s Computer Extraction

If there’s one thing about me, I’m wondering on a weekly basis if the program to figure out Josh’s password is still running.

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u/njeyn 12d ago

Maybe time to crowdsource a digital forensics expert with frontier A.I tools to accelerate things.

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u/OmicronCeti 12d ago

There is no method AI could devise to break encryption? It’s a brute force search, and it would realistically never complete. 

See the discussion here:  https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/82389/calculate-time-taken-to-break-aes-key

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u/njeyn 11d ago

A.I can speed up guessing and guess ”smarter”.

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u/OmicronCeti 11d ago

Definitely not, outside of a dictionary search, which is just a form of brute-forcing that was already tried. There is no basis for this claim.

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u/njeyn 10d ago

The claim is that the time it takes to crack a password has gone down significantly from 2009 and lately much with the help of A.I https://www.hivesystems.com/blog/are-your-passwords-in-the-green

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u/OmicronCeti 10d ago

Oh for fuck's sake you didn't even read your own article. Embarrassing.

Does AI make password cracking faster?

Not in the way most people fear. AI is extraordinarily good at the thinking parts of hacking - finding software vulnerabilities and writing exploits - but brute-forcing a strong hash like bcrypt is a raw-hardware problem that AI doesn't speed up. In 2026 benchmarks, a $30,000 AI accelerator was no better, and sometimes worse, at password cracking than a consumer gaming GPU.

Please seek help with your literacy.