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So it looks like this vulnerability is here to stay. They just raise the bar from "trivially breakable" to "you need a bit of cloudcomputing effort to break a connection".

You don't even need that, you can crack 56 bits on a home machine.

Keep in mind, DES was 56 bits, and it was brute forced in 56 hours in 1997.

http://cs-exhibitions.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php?id=263




Bluetooth physically requires some time to pass between communication. 2^56 seconds is 2 billion years. I doubt you can try more than 100 times a second.


Huh? You simply capture the packets and crack offline.




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