[pecenipicek]

you is a winrar XD


congrats and lets actually use the files now that we can access them

[Snail]

What's with the secrecy now? Do we have to kill the admins too now?

[Stormkeeper]

You`re winner!

Big Rigs for the abso-****ing-lute win.

[Tyrian]

How long was the password????  What was it like???  Tell us!!!  Tell us now!!!

[Goober5000]

The password was eight characters long.  There were seven lowercase letters and one number.

Black Sheep officially cancelled the campaign on or about April, 28th 2002.  So the data may be free to distribute; I dunno.  I'd ask Star-Epock, but he hasn't been online since May 18th.

[Stormkeeper]

E-mail him ? Or do we have to start another manhunt for him?

[Bob-san]

The password was eight characters long.  There were seven lowercase letters and one number.

Black Sheep officially cancelled the campaign on or about April, 28th 2002.  So the data may be free to distribute; I dunno.  I'd ask Star-Epock, but he hasn't been online since May 18th.

Somewhat interesting. I coulda sworn I searched that specifically. In fact, I know I didbut nothing came up. Maybe the passware kit Ihave was incompatible or something?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I had 3 different programs a running couple of different 8 character combos.  Still have 3 running including one lowercase letter/number/space/symbol and they haven't found anything yet.  Oh well guess I can shut all those processes down tomorrow. 

Man can't believe I had those processes running for over 2 months. 

[Bob-san]

I had 3 different programs a running couple of different 8 character combos.  Still have 3 running including one lowercase letter/number/space/symbol and they haven't found anything yet.  Oh well guess I can shut all those processes down tomorrow. 

Man can't believe I had those processes running for over 2 months. 

Calculate how much electricity you used! Anyway--I ran for only a week or so. Upon second thought--I think the initial xieve attack was only up to 6 char...=(

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well my bill was about $50.00 higher last month but I turned the AC down on a cool night so it would run to keep the computers cool (thermostat upstairs computers downstairs) and forgot about it being set that low for a couple of weeks.  Figured it out when it was 90 outside and 60 in the basement.  Computers where happy though. 

I don't think that xieve thing is a good as it says.  I was all the way up to working on 13 and 14 characters with that.  12 finished either late Tues or early Wed.  The 7 character brute force was only about 20% done.  The 8 character about 5%. 

The 7-8 character lower case/number combo was one of the processes I lost during the power outage and had to start over again.  Not sure how far along it was.  With my luck it will be solved when I go next door to check on them tomorrow. 

[Fabian]

Thanks for the title.

Actually I used the method written in the paper and with lots of optimizations I can now crack this file in around 12 minutes and with some additional brain power even after 5 minutes with one additional information in 30 secs.

If I have only 5 files, it takes a bit longer, but is still possible.

The program will be released as an addition to pkcrack later.

Brain versus Computer brute force *g*.

It was really surprising when I saw that the password was only 8 characters.

With this method I can also crack infinity long passwords that will never be cracked via bf though, which was the reason why I implemented the paper.

Best Wishes and Take Care,

Fabian

[Kie99]

So what's actually in it?  Anything release worthy?

[Goober5000]

It's got several (presumably playable) missions.  Surprisingly, none of them appear to have anything to do with time travel.  Maybe they're just what would have been the first act.

[Bob-san]

Scripts? Plot overview? Plans for ships, weapons, or missions?

[Goober5000]

If Star-Epock doesn't show up by July 15th (one week after the password discovery), I'll post the password the decrypted archive.

[Stormkeeper]

The clock is ticking ....

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well I just came in to check on the status of my attempts.  I got it too.  Day late and a dollar short as usual.   

BTW:  To whoever made that comment about meltdown or whatever it happened.  I had a machine overheat.  Don't think it was entirely due to the cracking attempts since that machine took a lightning hit last year but I'm sure it didn't help it any either.  Hope that MB is still under warranty.  Actually I hope it was just the MB that I can replace the 3.6 Pentium D might be a little harder to find.   

[Tyrian]

If the campaign is released, will the password be released with it...?

[Bob-san]

Well I just came in to check on the status of my attempts.  I got it too.  Day late and a dollar short as usual.   

BTW:  To whoever made that comment about meltdown or whatever it happened.  I had a machine overheat.  Don't think it was entirely due to the cracking attempts since that machine took a lightning hit last year but I'm sure it didn't help it any either.  Hope that MB is still under warranty.  Actually I hope it was just the MB that I can replace the 3.6 Pentium D might be a little harder to find.   

Any P965 board (there's a Foxconn one with everything for cheap but no real OCing), most P35, and many P45 boards will all support FSB800 Pentium Ds. Other than that, think about an E7200 ($130) and a P35 or P45 board ($100).

[DarthWang]

If the campaign is released, will the password be released with it...?

They should incorporate the password into the campaign. Like make it the name of a ship or something.