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thewayneThis first appeared a couple of years ago and claimed to encrypt a variety of files on your hard drive with RSA 1024 bit encryption. The original virus did a poor job of implementing RSA encryption and was only using 660 bytes. Because of this weakness, data was recoverable.
Well, in the two years since it was originally released, the author has fixed the code and it now uses all 1024 bits, which means that it's fundamentally unbreakable.
So what happens if your computer gets encrypted? Better hope your backups are good.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus would also like to talk to you, there's a chance they can recover your data.
This Slashdot article points to the Kaspersky alert: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/05/1921232
Well, in the two years since it was originally released, the author has fixed the code and it now uses all 1024 bits, which means that it's fundamentally unbreakable.
So what happens if your computer gets encrypted? Better hope your backups are good.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus would also like to talk to you, there's a chance they can recover your data.
This Slashdot article points to the Kaspersky alert: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/05/1921232
