Cryptography Broken on American Military Attack Video
Any ideas?
At a news conference at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks said it had acquired the video from whistle-blowers in the military and viewed it after breaking the encryption code. WikiLeaks released the full 38-minute video as well as a 17-minute edited version.
And this quote from the WikiLeaks Twitter feed on Feb 20th:
Finally cracked the encryption to US military video in which journalists, among others, are shot. Thanks to all who donated $/CPUs.
Surely this isn’t NSA-level encryption. But what is it?
Note that this is intended to be a discussion about the cryptanalysis, not about the geopolitics of the event.
EDITED TO ADD (4/13): It was a dictionary attack.
ukabu • April 7, 2010 1:52 PM
they barely use encryption on their drones http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/predator-drones-use-less-encryption-than-your-tv.ars
I guess most of their aircraft use a similar system.