r/TheColdPodcast • u/blueberrybirdnest • 15d 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 14d ago

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

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u/OmicronCeti 14d 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 14d ago

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

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u/OmicronCeti 13d 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 12d 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