The Manuall will be cracked in...

[Jeremy_Mc]

Originally Posted by pauluffel

I think it would be more fun to try and guess what the password would be, because it seems most likely that it would be something logical, rather than a random string of characters becuse 128 is so secure (I mentioned it to my CS teacher and received a skeptical look and the reply "large prime encryption? you could maybe crack it in a month or so" [and she's been playing with computers for quite a while, but if a month is wrong, cool] ).

I doubt I'll have the time to try out fun phrases (and if I did, I would close the file rather than reading, because cheating is no fun) but it would be fun just to see that creativity is more powerful complex encryption.

My guess is that the password is this year's game name (like ZoneZeal in 2002, et al.).

Yeah...the encryption they used is really secure. I'm sure they wouldn't use a short password that would be crackable within any conceivable amount of time. I'm positive if they were doing this they'd release it with a password that's going to take a month+ even with a 'supercomputer.'