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Re: Brute-forceable puzzle - free crypto for whoever manages to crack it
by
bob123
on 11/08/2021, 12:03:45 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (2)
Ok, encrypt
Code:
bacon bitter goddess sheriff differ kit sock stomach rhythm skill trade drastic
with password "bla" on Windows 10 without downloading external tools, and then also decrypt it. Let me see the how-to so even my mom can understand.

To be honestly, i couldn't care less about your approach and whether your mom will understand anything.

My only concern here is that others might believe this is a gOoD iDeA. That's the only reason i am commenting here. I absolutely don't care about you and your BTC.



You still don't get it. AES encrypting the seed words will produce 100-300 gibberish characters [...]

AES is a Block Cipher which works on 16 bytes blocks.
Assuming a 12 word mnemonic code, that's 132 bit (=16.5 byte) which results in a 32 byte output. If you want to store the IV together with the cipher text, that would be another 16 byte resulting in 48 byte in total.
That's nowhere close to "100-300 gibberish characters".

A 24 word mnemonic would result in 16 more bytes (a total of 64 bytes).

Now, instead of trying to call other people out on "not getting it" where "it" equals your shitty approach every sane person in the crypto scene wouldn't even touch with a stick, learn the fundamentals. Only then, we can start talking about encryption schemes and security in general.