Star Hackers Fail To Break Into Via's StrongBox
Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 1st Oct 2005 13:48 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption Hackers at a security conference failed to break into Via Technologies' StrongBox security application during a competition. The Taiwanese microprocessor vendor offered a $5000 (EUR 4157) prize to any hacker who could break into StrongBox, a secure virtual hard drive of up to 40GB designed to protect data from computer intruders. Announced on Tuesday, the application uses a combination of hardware-based SHA-1 and 256-bit AES encryption.
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RE: Time
by on Sat 1st Oct 2005 14:46 UTC in reply to "Time"

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Maybe true. But if it takes 100 years to break into the data most likely would be worthless then. It doesn't have to be completely unbreakable, just take a very long to do so.

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RE[2]: Time
by Varg Vikernes on Sat 1st Oct 2005 19:38 in reply to "RE: Time"
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2005-07-06

Except that to do this now might take 100 years, but in 5 years it could take 1 year or less... So you replace the encryption on your data every x years?

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RE[2]: Time
by re_re on Sun 2nd Oct 2005 02:02 in reply to "RE: Time"
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2005-07-06

lol @ 100 years

chances are pretty good this technology will be almost laughable in 10-15 years.

Maybe with current technology it would take 100 years.

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