XPost: alt.privacy, sci.crypt   
   From: nobody@goldmark.org   
      
   On 11-02-11 1:08 AM, DasFox wrote:   
      
   >>> Yet it is still possible for someone who doesn't have the gift of   
   >>> Parseltongue to fake it well enough to authenticate, as Ron did in   
   >>> Deathly Hallows.   
      
   > Ron was BRUTE FORCING the Chamber Of Secrets...Tech says "Yes"...   
      
   I would think that someone with technical knowledge of cryptography   
   would know the difference between a brute force attack and a replay   
   attack.  Ron may have needed several attempts at the replay attack, but   
   the essence was a replay, not brute force.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
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