Re: pent-test a container file

From: Jamie Riden (jamesr@europe.com)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2007 - 14:58:18 EST


On 19/01/07, Julien <prospi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So for you, the only possible attack is to "brute force" the password
> interface ?
> I actually know that the used algo is AES... no more.
> The minimum password length to use is 6 characters (including numbers
> and special characters..)

If there were any easy attacks against AES, it wouldn't be AES, it
would only be Rijndael :)

Try picking a copy of Practical Cryptography (Schneier), but unless
they've done anything dumb - like having insufficiently random
initialisation vectors, or using ECB mode instead of CBC to encrypt -
it's probably not going to get you very far. (Hopefully they have
used a decent crypto library like Botan or Peter Gutmann's one, and
haven't rolled their own.)

Cheers,
 Jamie

-- 
Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr@europe.com / jamie.riden@gmail.com
NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
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