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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Honestly, that thread is horribly misguided. It started out as a joke, and then someone came in with misinformation about it being possible for a large corporation to crack the encryption. This would be true if FIRST used the very, very basic 40-bit encryption. That can be cracked in a relatively short amount of time by just a single home PC. 128-bit encryption with a strong algorithm and a strong key like FIRST chose is entirely too hard to crack. You could throw dozens of supercomputers at the problem and you might have had last year's documents cracked in time for next year's competition. I'm sure FIRST understands that there is statistically no chance of the password being cracked in even a month, so I can only assume that the delayed release this year is for some other reason.
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Does it matter if it's a joke?
If I'm walking around in front of the whitehouse and make a joke about terrorists or George Bush dying, do you think the secret service agents are gonna go "yo dude, you makin a joke, or were you serious? cuz I really dont feel like getting up and doing anything about it right now" They're going to arrest me, no matter what my intentions were. Same as if you say "bomb" on an airplane.
Intentions don't matter for anything, it's all about perception and in this case FIRST perceived that these people were serious