[Cryptography] DoJ/FBI's "nuclear"/Lavabit option

Kevin W. Wall kevin.w.wall at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 23:35:07 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
...[snip]...
> Perhaps Apple is currently doing an internal version of the "obfuscated C
> contest", to slow down this brute force attack.

Much of it is probably written in Objective-C, so it's already
obfuscated by design.
How much worse could it get? ;-)

Or maybe Apple should write a C and Objective-C translator to translate it to
Brainfuck and deliver that to them.

-kevin
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