Cyber Command logo code cracked

[68Charger]

The new Cyber Command logo had a hidden code.. wasn't very difficult, took the winner only a little over 3 hours to crack..

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010...npu=1&mbid=yhp

gotta love some of the other comments, too..

[Hoosier]

Gah, they used an insecure hash! md5 is broken, crafted collisions founds by a Chinese researcher. So lame.

H.

[SA Friday]

Gah, they used an insecure hash! md5 is broken, crafted collisions founds by a Chinese researcher. So lame.

H.

Wow! You speak gibberish. I wish I could learn a foreign language.

[68Charger]

made perfect sense to me.. I'm familiar with MD5, used a lot for router password encryption...

the only thing they used was "security through obscurity" by not stating what encryption was used.. but MD5 was an easy guess, and not difficult to crack anymore..

the only question is, did they want it to be cracked easily, or are they just incompetent?

[Hoosier]

The CIA has a statue in a courtyard with four "paragraphs" of cypher. Three of them have been cracked, but the fourth hasn't yet. Almost 20 years.

http://elonka.com/kryptos/index.html#spoilers

H.

[Glock Shooter]

The Beast at Tenagra....Ozani, his army, shaka when the walls fell

;?)

[Hoosier]

the only question is, did they want it to be cracked easily, or are they just incompetent?

I think it's incompetence, along the lines of reprimand in your record for leaving your terminal unlocked when you take a pee, in a secured room on a secure base. And then using md5() to secure your Windows user password database on an open wireless network. Take your hands out of your pockets or get a reprimand, but overlook the real issues at hand type of thing.

Or the kind of incompetence that allows a single SPC in Kuwait to (reportedly) access the entire DOS cable record. The kind of incompetence that allows drones to be deployed with unencrypted downlinks.

The same kind that is constantly preparing to fight the last war, or thinking an invasion can be launched in which you use anything less than every available force. You may agree or disagree that an invasion of Iraq was a good idea; but I think everyone agrees it was done half assed, with a quarter of the forces required, and that botching it up early resulted in a lot of the long term problems that resulted.

H.

[Elhuero]

The Beast at Tenagra....Ozani, his army, shaka when the walls fell

;?)

Temba, his arms wide!

[68Charger]

The Beast at Tenagra....Ozani, his army, shaka when the walls fell

;?)

"Sokath, his eyes uncovered!"

[TFOGGER]

Picard, at the bridge!