What is a Brute Force attack?
In cryptography, a brute force attack is a strategy used to break the encryption of data. It involves traversing the search space of possible keys until the correct key is found.
The selection of an appropriate key length depends on the practical feasibility of performing a brute force attack. By obfuscating the data to be encoded, brute force attacks are made less effective as it is more difficult to determine when one has succeeded in breaking the code.
The code that the Brute Force attacks is called MD-5. Recently, our friend Yuri, a graduate of computer science in Moscow University reverse engineered the the MD-5 simulator, a generator that creates 956 bit encyption for VOIP. MD-5 conceivably creates strings so that most computers recognize it. These strings are usually small 24 -to 256 characters. The Rapter creates gigabyte and terabyte length encryption that would take years even decades to decode.
Our experiment involved encrypting numerical data generated by scans of Gray’s Anatomy at resolution of 3000 x 4000 pixels per inch then encrypted it which took three hours, but it was delivered to a specific IP address at: 124.232.152.116,whom we know to be Chinese intelligence trying to decrypt VOIP conversations world wide.
This caused flooding from several IP addresses within the APNIC region. The reaction type and frequency suggested that the system shut down. We confirmed this by simply pinging the IP and got no response.
Rapter has become the new tool for confusing the enemy. Our tests also included our own servers, which not only shut down our $30,000 reactive firewalls, but shut down the terabit server in Germany.
Location of Brute Force Attack: (PDF) 136K IP 124.232.152.116. locatio..
