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Re: pent-test a container file


From: "Jamie Riden" <jamesr () europe com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:58:18 +1300

On 19/01/07, Julien <prospi () gmail com> wrote:
Hi,

So for you, the only possible attack is to "brute force" the password
interface ?
I actually know that the used algo is AES... no more.
The minimum password length to use is 6 characters (including numbers
and special characters..)

If there were any easy attacks against AES, it wouldn't be AES, it
would only be Rijndael :)

Try picking a copy of Practical Cryptography (Schneier), but unless
they've done anything dumb - like having insufficiently random
initialisation vectors, or using ECB mode instead of CBC to encrypt -
it's probably not going to get you very far.  (Hopefully they have
used a decent crypto library like Botan or Peter Gutmann's one, and
haven't rolled their own.)

Cheers,
Jamie
--
Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr () europe com / jamie.riden () gmail com
NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/

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