Computer Whizs, a serious encryption challenge for you?

Question

No goofball answers please, this is very serious. The man in Idaho accused of murdering the two children's family and kidnapping them, ultimately killing the little boy, has video evidence of his assaults on those children encrypted on his computer. He has bragged he has it covered so deep it would take them 30 years to break it. The prosecutor so far has not been able to access the files. Do you have the true expertise to offer to help break his encryption coding? If so please post a way to contact you and I will forward all volunteers to the proper authorities. He cannot be allowed to get away with murdering 4 people and destroying a family!! THANK YOU!!

As far as how it's encrypted, I can't tell you. I do know they have been working on it since his arrest in May 2005! The video was done between April 15th and his arrest at the end of May.

Also, this man was not smart enough to not drive through town with the very child in tow and stop for dinner, which is when he was arrested. How smart could he be with computers that the code be that intricate?

Answer 1

Do not be silly, anyone with the proper encryption experience will not be stating so here if they have any honest talent. Those who deal with breaking encryption work for the government or they work for themselves. Furthermore as the police are aware of this case the encryption is being worked on by the FBI. They have professional codebreakers ment specifically for this purpose.

In all likelyhood this murderer has used a very high bit encryption. It would take a computer several years to break such a code and is impossible for a human to break. If it is not this form of encryption then the FBI will take care of it within a few months. Let me explain a little bit about encryptions so that it is easy to understand.

Computers store information in numbers and it takes several hundred thousand lines in some cases millions. This means that becuase of the limitation of characters the only way to make a good encryption is to make several hundred million variations of a single character that does not result from a simple pattern. This pattern is needed to break the code and only computers can test the combinations.

The second form most people are used to. It is like the childish codes we used such as pig latin or writing backwards. They are systems evolved around the words so that they are at the very least misunderstood. This method is commonly used in such a way where only by getting the value of each letter in numbers. Using these numbers you get off words that have no signifigance you can build new letters by crossing the letters and the numbers recieved. This can get ungodly complicated very quickly which is why this system can not be used by computers. Computers are not capable of handling symbology. This is how the Zodiac Killer and other serial killers use crypts to stump the police department. They make the message as short as possible so that breaking it becomes a nightmare.

I could write a code that will take months to crack that is very very silly and simple, but becuase I will only write three letters it will still take a long time and lead to many incorrect answers. If I was to encrypt data files on a computer I would use a 256 bit encryption with a password at least 50 characters in length. I would use special characters, capital letters, and gaps with the spacebar at random intervals. I estimate it would take a normal computer like the one your sitting at a few hundred thousand years to break it. Such codes have upset the FBI and the NSA becuase even using super computers it will take several hundred years to break.

I doubt someone who would murder his entire family has the know how to create such a code, but then again some really smart people are crazy. The best chance of getting that code is to get the murderer to tell it to you.

Don't get me wrong I would help. However I have no resources capable of dealing with such codes. I would likely just guess at the password for several hundred thousand attempts before giving up.

Hails,
Silence

Answer 2

The judge should order him to hand over the encryption key. If he refuses, the judge can put him in jail indefinitely for contempt of court.

As far as how smart he is (or isn't), that's not necessarily related to how strong the encryption is. All he needs to be is smart enough to use some third-party encryption software that is good. He doesn't have to have written the encryption software himself.

Answer 3

How is it encrypted?
Code or cipher or both?
Does it use double key? One key? No key?
Was a program used to format it?
How old is the video?

Answer 4

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