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Re: Wikileaks video "crypto".
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Coppi)
Fri Apr 9 16:35:52 2010
In-Reply-To: <87eiioxx7e.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 13:40:33 -0600
From: Thomas Coppi <thisnukes4u@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 13:06, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 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? <majordomo@metzdowd.com>
>
This site http://leaks.telecomix.org/ claims to have the original,
unencrypted video. It appears to have been encrypted with OpenSSL given the
Salted__ prefix.
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Thomas Coppi
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