FBI Failed To Break Encryption of Hard Drives

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 26, 2010 @06:37AM from the deploy-the-quantum-computer dept.

benoliver writes to let us know that the FBI has failed to decrypt files of a Brazilian banker accused of financial crimes by Brazilian law enforcement, after a year of attempts. Five hard drives were seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha in July 2008. (The link is to a Google translation of the original article in Portuguese.) The article in English mentions two encryption programs, one Truecrypt and the other unnamed. 256-bit AES was used, and apparently both the Brazilian police and the FBI tried dictionary attacks against it. No Brazilian law exists to force Dantas to produce the password(s).

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Re:The universe would suffer thermal death by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-26 06:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Such as:
640k should be enough for anybody.
There exists a market for up to 5 computers worldwide.
2400 baud is the theoretical limit of phone line data transfer.
mo;d down by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-26 07:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

is part of the e8countere3 while
Re:is waterboarding next to get the info? by lawpoop · 2010-06-26 07:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Not to nitpick, but in American English, it's called evidence. Thanks for your insightful comments, sorry to be pedantic!

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