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Old 8th February 2007, 11:44   #79  |  Link
arnezami
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Originally Posted by SBeaver View Post
ok i counted without the 06, but i still typed the wrong number.
Anyway, that, combined with patterns of the code, like all numbers are under 70 or something.

I googled to check and found this:

"Swiss-based Ph.D. Student Solves 48-bit
Key in RSA Data Security's Secret-Key Challenge; Search rate by 3,500 computers reaches 1.5 trillion keys per hour"

Note that this was from 1997
Brute forcing these Volume IDs is not really an option (and not really required). But I believe we may be able to reduce it much further so it can be very easely guessed.

But we need more examples for that!
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