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Originally Posted by nparikh
Good luck trying to figure out the code in the first place. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons they don't release the files until just now because there isn't enough time to try and crack it even with the fastest computers.
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You are quite right, people will (most likely) not be able to crack the manual. If they are in fact using AES encryption, they could have released the manuals many years ago and it would still be safe to call them 'secure.' That is the encryption the NSA uses folks, it's not your granddad's Navajo code-talking, or Enigma ciphers. To crack it, you are talking years (probably more than a decade) on the fastest computers in the world. If someone can crack it in one day I would be amazed and very much surprised. In fact, I wish attempters luck, because while cracking the FIRST manual is not GP, it is better to have a vulnerability in AES revealed by some teenager cracking a rulebook for an educational robotics competition than a black-hat cracker finding the same vulnerability and exploiting it to acquire plans for nuclear weapons, details of the US military secrets, and all the data the NSA has collected through their domestic spying programs.