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Originally posted by ItsLost
I'm totally not into encrypting. My idea/hope came from the 'analogy' of the key and the keyhole. The password is used to 'unlock(decipher)' the file like a key is used to unlock the lock. Looking at the keyhole gives some idea about the key as well.
I understand the analogy. But the analogy isn't an analogy for encryption though. Encryption works in a different way.
Aka: you can not look at the keyhole and even if it was possible, you can't decypher what kind of key you need. You don't even know the size of the key you need.
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Originally posted by ItsLost
Would a modern pc be up to that job, taking into account the password is only verified in that mini-log, as you described it?
A PC doesn't need to be "powerfull" at all. You could do it on an antique PC running on 10Mhz too. The important factor is speed. But even on a more than average fast PC, it would take an extremely long time...
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Originally posted by ItsLost
Moreover, another thought. Any new chat log is encrypted using the same password, without having to provide that password every time. That means Plus! is keeping it somewhere?
It keeps it in the registry, BUT this password is also encrypted....
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Note that people have discussed all this since a long time (as long as encryption of logs has been added to Plus!). Search the forums and you'll see exactly the same threads as this one with exactly the same questions and thoughts. And even back in the days when the encryption was many times weaker as it is now, nobody has ever been able to 'crack' any logs. To be honest, don't bother and give up, you'll be wasting your time.
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