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Is the Triple DES Unbreakable?
Distributed.net notwithstanding, Triple-DES will not be cracked by brute force in the near future. There are two possible weaknesses to a standard symetrical cryptographic protocol. First, the key length may be too short. Second, the protocol may be flawed. In the first case, you get DES. DES...- Filksinger
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- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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spyware problem
If msconfig isn't there, you can download even better tools for free from www.download.com. A quick check shows http://download.com.com/3000-2086-7219049.html?tag=lst-0-3, which I find, on quick perusal, to be generally superior to msconfig for this purpose.- Filksinger
- Post #13
- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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spyware problem
If you are receiving strange, apparently random, file addresses on executables, then it might be a trojan. If so, reinstalling everything from scratch is the only truely safe way of handling it. However, since it appears it might be spyware instead, you can take care of it manually, in most...- Filksinger
- Post #7
- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
