A brute-force attack is attempting to find a secret value by trying all possible values until the correct one is found.
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How does one find out ciphers/passwords without knowing what cryptographic algorithms are used?
If one does not reveal what cryptographic algorithms are used, how does a cracker find out a password/cipher that is used to communicate data? I heard that because there are methods to try cracking ...
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More technical details on the ongoing (alleged) Chinese cyberattacks
Recently, there has been quite a lot of news about the Chinese compromising various US weapons systems and stealing military designs through "cyberwarfare". I am reading the news sources about these ...
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how many bit flips current computers can carry per second? When brute force is hard?
How many bit flips the fastest current computers can accomplish per time unit? i.e per second. I am trying to find when brute force attacks are considered infeasible. The reason I chose bit flips is ...
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Kryptos : K3. What is the accepted transposition for a solution?
I'm studying the Kryptos sculpture with its cryptographic puzzles K1 to K4.
It's understood that K3 is solved via transposition, but I have seen several solutions. Which is the best/accepted one?
