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Police Need 90 Days To Crack Hard Drives

Posted by Zonk on from the they'll-get-better-with-practice dept.

Twyko64 writes "The UK police may need 90 days to hold terrorist suspects because it takes that long to crack a suspect's PC hard drive." From the article: "Combining the analysis, the translation and second stage analysis, add inter-country co-operation and interview strategy formation, and from the police point of view, the existing 14 days is inadequate and 90 days doesn't look excessive. Another factor is encryption sophistication. If 256-bit triple-DES or similar techniques are used then decryption could require supercomputer-levels of cracking."

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  1. 256? 3des? no. by jlcooke · · Score: 5, Informative

    3des. 3 x des. des uses 64 bit key. Well, 56 bit if you remove the useless parity.

    3 x 56 = 168. or 3 x 64 = 192. Either way, 256 is is not.

    256 bit AES, then maybe.