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jordanpower6
02-12-2011, 04:21 PM
Hey, im not sure if this is old news but i found this on google could this lead to anything? :sweatdrop:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele/
Emerald Lance
02-14-2011, 03:41 AM
I'm not so tech savvy about what means what, but I do know that 1024 bits is a nice chunk of encryption to be hacked by what I would have to say is more than likely luck. I wonder if any games use this encryption? I honestly wouldn't know.
jordanpower6
02-14-2011, 09:42 AM
I'm not so tech savvy about what means what, but I do know that 1024 bits is a nice chunk of encryption to be hacked by what I would have to say is more than likely luck. I wonder if any games use this encryption? I honestly wouldn't know.

Its the code Microsoft use to sign XEX's etc with.