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:is waterboarding next to get the info? by jbssm · 2010-06-26 10:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

First off, water-boarding isn't torture.
Oh really, thanks for the info. Next time I see an American citizen walking here in the street in Europe (they are pretty easy to spot, they normally carry shorts and sandals with socks even if it's winter, poor people still didn't understand that Southern Europe is not a tropical country, they have a strange accent and they make dumb remarks about most of the stuff around), I guess I'll just pick one take in home and water board him until he agrees to give me his money. I guess, since it's not torture it's surely not illegal, so I will be ok with the law and earn a few quid.