By Jennifer Seberry, Professor of Computer Security at the University of Wollongong.
It has been reported that Osama bin Laden’s hard drives have been seized, hard drives that could conceivably contain information regarding the membership, funding and future plans of al-Qaeda.Information of this type would help anti-terrorism agencies enormously.The hard drives were recovered from bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and are said to be encrypted with a encryption method known as AES-256.AES-256 is the current world standard for data encryption and is used by the likes of Wikileaks and the US Government to encrypt sensitive information. Continue reading ‘Cracking bin Laden’s computer code: unlikely’
