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M.E.
Aged Yak Warrior
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 Posted - 2002-06-27 : 10:49:33
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| My company as a standard encrypts all things I send to them with little thought... company policy. I've got backups of all my source code so thats really not an issue (actually, about 8-10 people have copies of the source code). What I am wondering about... Actually, I don't really care to post it on the forum, could someone who knows something about encryption email me (searosis@hotmail.com). Curious about reversing actually, It is a little bit of a hot topic at this company as is and I just want to be informed when I talk about it around here.Just read all Robs posts on it. anyone wanna put a link to it and a br_____mp in the same post and let him have a good 5 page rant?[edit] put this in the wrong forum... whoops[/edit]-----------------------Take my advice, I dare yaEdited by - M.e. on 06/27/2002 10:57:14 |
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Arnold Fribble
Yak-finder General
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Posted - 2002-06-27 : 11:03:40
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| Shrug. It encrypts, it decrypts, it doesn't ask any external entity for a key: therefore it can be reverse engineered without any cryptanalysis. Of course, reverse engineering cryptosystems -- even ones that are broken -- is illegal in the US under the DMCA.Edited by - Arnold Fribble on 06/27/2002 11:06:06 |
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M.E.
Aged Yak Warrior
539 Posts |
Posted - 2002-06-27 : 11:13:06
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| I'm more looking for an answer to 'is it really that easy to do?' I know we are encrypting for security.. but if it's so e... bleh, once again I don't want to post anything that looks like its encouraging other people to use it... Although I guess punishable by law is prolly a good enough reason not toI guess the question is, for the hassle they go through, is it really worth encrypting what can be unencrypted with a program that can be simply found on google?-----------------------Take my advice, I dare yaEdited by - M.e. on 06/27/2002 11:17:02 |
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graz
Chief SQLTeam Crack Dealer
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Posted - 2002-06-27 : 11:59:10
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| Yes, it's really easy to do. I'm sure Google can provide you a link. Unfortunately I'm not enough of a lawyer to know whether DMCA would really snag me in this case but I'm not real excited about taking the chance either.I've not been very happy with SQL Server encryption. If someone wants it bad enough, it's not strong enough to prevent it. It is strong enough to prevent me from trouble shooting a problem on piece of packaged software. That was very irritating.===============================================Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today.One crisis at a time. |
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M.E.
Aged Yak Warrior
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Posted - 2002-06-27 : 12:47:02
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Kinda one of those damned if you do, extremely pissed off if you don't type cases. I never realized how easy they'd be to unencrypt. Seems like one of those things designed only to prevent people who don't know what their doing from altering stuff... Bleh, I'll have to talk to the people around here and tell em the waste of time it seems to be. Heh, although if they want to see what I mean, they'll be the ones dling it, not me  -----------------------Take my advice, I dare ya |
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This encryption bit I just read