Posted on 03/16/2005 8:13:20 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Oooo, good idea. I think I'll have a little talk with my Kimbers this evening.
I found my winchester by the couch yesterday. I think it's stalking me...
There are sophisticated commercial encryption packages that use powerful key generation hashes. The passphrase is not actually the key, but is hashed by the algorithm into a random 256-bit binary key.
Even if you use a password like 'dog123', an random 256-bit key is still generated, which is equivalent to a 32 character password.
The commercial cracking packages that the police use against these commercial encryption packages use a dictionary attack, rather than brute-force, because it would take too long to brute-force a random 256-bit key. They take words in their dictionary, run them through the key-generation algorithm, and use the resulting key. The forensic companies boast about how great they are, and how they have 'modules' for all the popular encyption packages, but anyone who uses a strong key won't be cracked. The police aren't going to try the 7-billion year option.
I'm glad they are wasting precious time trying to figure it out.
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Might be time for a restraining order, no?
bump for later
However, it is emerging that he seemd to have rather great frustrations about getting married (still single at 44), because as I understand it, in that particular sect, you are de-facto forbidden (they do not tell you 'no' per se, but they say you will not achieve eternal paradise if you disobey the rules and pastoral 'counseling') to actually marry anyone outside of that sect.
Since the sect is very small in the US and worldwide, and churches are small, it appears the only time Terry Ratzmann could find prospective marraige partners was at a one time event called "Feast of Tabernacles" that he attended, in some of the singles events--at one time he actually went overseas to Australia I believe, in search of a partner.
Former members of this sect are relating that there is high stress in that church amongst singles because of the miniscule choices they have due to doctrine and enforcement of that doctrine through subtleties.
Does this sound like mind control to you, or others?
Yes, it is mind control. Reminds me of the ol' Shakers, who, I believe, could not reproduce. They depended on recruits. Church growth was always numero uno on the agenda at the general meeting.
In an interview with WTMJ-TV that was broadcast Thursday evening, Ratzmann's sister, who was not identified, said the family is having a hard time accepting that her brother would fire a gun in a room with children. Two of the dead were teenagers and a 10-year-old girl was injured. The sister said Ratzmann had not shown any violent tendencies. "I would like to know why. That religion that he belonged to, his church, had so much more influence on him that he couldn't feel comfortable talking about his concerns more with us, his family," she said. "It's horrible knowing that one minute of Terry's life is all that people are seeing, and I wish that people could go back and look at the other 44 years because he was completely different." Ratzmann apparently had a troubled childhood and was the only member of his family to join the church, reported the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. His mother was Catholic and his late father Lutheran, his aunt Nancy Fluhr told the newspaper. Ratzmann joined the Worldwide Church of God, predecessor of the Living Church of God, in the mid-1980s, Joel Lillengreen, pastor to the Waukesha congregation at the time, told the newspaper.
Unfortunately, this is one of those instances where "rubber hose cryptography" won't work to significantly shorten the key discovery period.
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