As a security professional, and having seen the keys they used the last years, breaking into the document in a short time isn't possible. (unless FIRST/AndyMark lends you the 2.3 million node cluster they built to run FIRST Choice
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When I teach about encryption I talk about how long the message needs to be a secret. "Attack at Dawn" only needs to be safe for less than 24 hours. After dawn, the message is worthless.
So FIRST posts it on the 31'st, it only needs to hold up for 4 days. Even a short phrase "I believe that Robots ROCK!" or mangled into -> "1 b3l1eve th4t R0b0ts R0CK!" would be safe for a few weeks.
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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Frankly, you'd have a better chance of kidnapping Frank and "torturing" it from him.
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That made me laugh. In the
Industrial Intellectual Property Theft Prevention World, bribing someone is the most common case of what happens. I doubt anyone will have much success with that either.
But, as an exercise to the casual password maven, fire up your GPU clusters and have a go AFTER kickoff. I'm willing to bet lunch that it will still be working on it when the next season is coming around.
Or maybe work on CAD of the new robot .....