Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Is anyone else here making themself crazy right now?

I have the 2007 game on my hard drive, but I CAN'T READ IT!!! (why isn't there a "bashing head on desk" smiley?)

I love how they had to mention that it is secure encoding. I wonder if in '05 someone brute-forced the manual, and that's why they had a ridiculously long and random password '06 instead of the l33t sp33k they did in '05.

I don't know. For sure I won't get much sleep now. they HAD to release those PDFs early...

JBot

EDIT: I'm not going to brute-force anything. Just wanted to make that clear.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Yeah it does kind of suck that we don't get the clue to decrypt them but ohh well. In a way thats fair!!!! But then again I wish I could read the manual.

I AM NOT GOING TO SLEEP AT ALL!!!!!! This drives me nuts! FIRST if you get this we should get a clue!!!


(Bangs head on desk):ahh:

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Yea my guess is that something in the BOM would give a part of the field away :yikes:

We will find out on Saturday!

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

just a question..... are teams allowed to mirror the files on their servers? do we need permissions? if so where would i go to get that?

thanks in advance
/forest

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

oh my the tension is building quite high...
i cant wait for the decryption passwords. This is going to be so exciting (=

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

The first rule of distributed password recovery software club is, you do not talk about distributed password recovery software club. :mad:

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Now you've got me thinking about what wouldn't be a logical inclusion on a FIRST field! GRRR!!!!!!!:mad:

And we really do need a "bashing head on desk" and/or "ripping one's hair out" smiley.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

(1) 54' x 26' pool liner

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Most of the time FIRST does not like it when teams mirror the current Game Manual without emailing them asking for permission first. The reason for this is that during the build season they may periodically update the different sections of the game manual as needed, and you and your website would now have out-of-date files on them. There would be no way for FIRST to guarantee that teams have the current versions on their team/personal websites.

While FIRST generally appreciates the gracious professionalism of team's wanting to host files elsewhere to alleviate the load, they generally will say no.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

I did e-mail them, just to see what they would say. And here is their response.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Every year, they say the same thing, and every year, it always seems to have a denial of service.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

btw i did some quick math and guessing that they will have a pw less than 30 characters using lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and symbols. their would be
32,581,350,291,633,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
passwords might take awhile to guess that.....:ahh:
/forest

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

Well then . There are 20k FRC members at least... GOGOGOG guess it...

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

DECRYPTION KEY


If you don't believe me, try it.

Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/2007 FRC Manual Decryption and Bill of Materials Information
 

1337 2p3@k f+\/\/