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Originally Posted by speedfreak
I found it a bit odd. I thought anything could be cracked these days. If the crime would have been terrorist related you'd have thought (hoped) they would have managed to crack it
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You can download encryption from the Internet free of charge and encrypt a message that is unlikely to be broken in your lifetime, even assuming there are massive advances in computing power during that time.
The only option is to try every possible combination of letters, numbers and punctuation. Think about how long that will take given the 26 letters of each case, 10 numbers, and various bits of punctuation over 50 characters
