Comment by throwaway89864
14 hours ago
You can probably just point Claude or ChatGPT to decrypt it, it would find that there's some silly and obvious cipher is used that survived from the 60ies, with a 56 bit private key. /this is a wild guess, I don't have any special clearance or access/
Not a chance. OTP for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
An OTP is secure only if the key is truly random.
As we saw from eMudhra this week, people do stupid things.
eMudhra does stupid things, NSA does not. Not with NC2.
What’s the significance of the first six characters? They repeat them multiple times before reading off the full message multiple times.
Sheesh, hopefully a governmental department that has the NSA nearby would've been warned about this...
Then again, it is the government...
I also dont know anything but Im sure AI / cloud / blockchain / mongoDB / (insert fad here) will solve it due to synergy and other buzzwords.