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Wikileaks video "crypto".
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Apr 9 15:08:57 2010
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:06:13 -0400
Earlier this weeks, Wikileaks released of video of an incident involving
an Apache helicopter which killed two Reuters reporters and a number of
bystanders in Iraq.
A number of the reports surrounding the release claim that the video was
"decrypted" by Wikileaks. Indeed, Wikileaks requested "supercomputer
time" via twitter and other means to "decrypt" a video, see:
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7530875613
The video was apparently intentionally given to Wikileaks, so one can't
imagine that the releasing parties would have wanted it to be unreadable
by them (or that any reasonable modern cryptosystem would have be
crackable). What, then, does the "decryption" claim mean here. Does
anyone know?
Perry
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