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Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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It is the same length as an md5sum which isn't solved. Googling 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A bring up this strange site: http://www.niconnect.com/

Which just has a QR code on the front of the site and nothing else. Decoding the QR with http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx shows the text:

NICONNECT.COM Poder Cibernetico 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A Brazil

"Poder Cibernetico" in Portuguese sounds like "Cyber Power" or something such.

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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>The U.S. military’s new Cyber Command is headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland – one of the military’s most secretive and secure facilities.

And yet they use something akin to viral marketing to raise awareness of its existence?

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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It's a hash. Not in any of my rainbow tables though =/

So 128 bits? I'd guess they wouldn't use md5 (or any of the md family), which according to wiki leaves haval/ripemd/tiger. I'd go for ripemd-128 (on what the wiki says) although you would expect them to use a NSA blessed algorithm.

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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It is the same length as an md5sum which isn't solved. Googling 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A bring up this strange site: http://www.niconnect.com/ Which just has a QR code on the front of the site and nothing else. Decoding the QR with http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx shows the text: NICONNECT.COM Poder Cibernetico 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A Brazil "Poder Cibernetico" in Portuguese sounds like "Cyber Power" o…

The above site has in as well.

Poder is power in Latin as well. Cibernetico might be a latin translation of Cybernetic.... I'm expecting a Latin moto as per usual on these things. Still can't get the hash, tried a number of different capitalisations.

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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post #5
post #2

It's a hash. Not in any of my rainbow tables though =/

So 128 bits? I'd guess they wouldn't use md5 (or any of the md family), which according to wiki leaves haval/ripemd/tiger. I'd go for ripemd-128 (on what the wiki says) although you would expect them to use a NSA blessed algorithm.

Wouldn't you also expect it to be realistically crackable? Otherwise why bother

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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post #7
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So 128 bits? I'd guess they wouldn't use md5 (or any of the md family), which according to wiki leaves haval/ripemd/tiger. I'd go for ripemd-128 (on what the wiki says) although you would expect them to use a NSA blessed algorithm.

Wouldn't you also expect it to be realistically crackable? Otherwise why bother

I don't think they're expecting it to be cracked, per se, just guessed. I don't have to have defeated the SHA-256 algorithm to find your hashed password in a rainbow table.

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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It is the same length as an md5sum which isn't solved. Googling 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A bring up this strange site: http://www.niconnect.com/ Which just has a QR code on the front of the site and nothing else. Decoding the QR with http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx shows the text: NICONNECT.COM Poder Cibernetico 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A Brazil "Poder Cibernetico" in Portuguese sounds like "Cyber Power" o…

It's possible that "Poder Cibernetico" is how they chose to translate Cyber Command.

Re: Crack the Code in Cyber Command's Logo

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It is the same length as an md5sum which isn't solved. Googling 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A bring up this strange site: http://www.niconnect.com/ Which just has a QR code on the front of the site and nothing else. Decoding the QR with http://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx shows the text: NICONNECT.COM Poder Cibernetico 9EC4C12949A4F31474F299058CE2B22A Brazil "Poder Cibernetico" in Portuguese sounds like "Cyber Power" o…

It's possible that "Poder Cibernetico" is how they chose to translate Cyber Command.

But they also have the lighting in the heraldry, which is a symbol for power. Dunno what the swords might be, military?
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