Chapter 1523 Password Cracking

In deep space, a small transport ship slowly approached the temporary space port hovering over Ceres.

As a shuttle slowly descended, two experts in space suits walked out of the landing station under the escort of a group of soldiers in exoskeleton armor.

"Welcome to Ceres, I'm Yang Wu, general advisor of the Pan-Asia First Fleet."

"Nice to meet you."

After shaking hands with the middle-aged man in front of him, academician Wang Sicheng, with gray sideburns, nodded in a friendly way towards the general counsel.

As an in-service professor of the School of Information Engineering of Jinling University and an academician of the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences, Academician Wang has outstanding research results and academic status in the field of quantum computers and information security technology.

After learning that a quantum computer array suspected to be left by an extraterrestrial civilization was found on Ceres, the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences immediately sent him an invitation, hoping that he could provide assistance to the Pan-Asian First Fleet on behalf of the Academy of Sciences to investigate the source of this computer And figuring out what that thing is calculating.

"It's unimaginable...someone would actually build a base in this kind of place." After letting go of his hand, Academician Wang Sicheng glanced around, with an unbelievable surprise in his eyes.

It can be seen from the bomb craters and scrapped mechanical parts all over the ground that a big war broke out here before.

Obviously, not only is the scale of the base itself not small, but the scale of the defense facilities deployed here also cannot be underestimated.

Otherwise, it would never be possible for the First Fleet to pour such ferocious firepower on the surface of this asteroid.

Yang Wu: "What's even more unimaginable is that there is also the largest quantum computer array suspected to be in the solar system...whose masterpiece do you think this is?"

Wang Sicheng: "I don't know, many things can only be known after research."

Yang Wu: "It's just a hypothesis."

Hearing this sentence, Professor Wang Sicheng was silent for a while before speaking.

"If it's just hypothetical, I vote for extraterrestrial civilization."

"Extraterrestrial civilization...reminds me of the People's Federation that fell apart more than half a century ago."

As he said that, Yang Wu's eyes couldn't help being stained with a hint of memory.

People's Federation is probably the first attempt of human civilization to seek global political unity under the impetus of external pressure. Although this attempt ended in failure, it provided a lot of inspiration for the birth of regional alliances later.

If the People's Federation is compared to a community of destiny within the Earth-Moon system, then regional alliances such as the Pan-Asian Cooperation, the North American Alliance, the North Sea Alliance, and the Iberian-French Alliance are probably small-scale fates formed on the basis of specific regions. community.

As for how the Renlian disappeared?

That's a long story.

However, let him summarize it according to his own understanding. It is probably that with the collapse of the gates of hell and the retreat of the expedition team, all clues about extraterrestrial civilizations have been interrupted, and related debates have gradually withdrawn from people's field of vision over time. , back to the realm of academia.

The People's Federation established to fight against extraterrestrial civilizations naturally loses the meaning of existence...

"Do you think that if this computer is indeed an outpost of an extraterrestrial civilization—or something like that, it's possible for the Human Federation to be re-established?"

"It's difficult," Yang Wu shook his head. "100 years ago, our strongest starship was the Xiaguang. If it is put into place now, it may not be as good as a carrier-based aircraft on the Taishan."

Wang Sicheng asked casually, "Why is it impossible to be strong?"

Looking at the devastated battlefield not far away, Yang Wu continued, "Because now, even in the face of extraterrestrial civilizations, we may not be without the possibility of fighting them."

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The specific location was deep in the valley, and the group quickly entered the base after passing through the military checkpoint.

Looking at the bullet holes left in the corridor, Academician Wang Sicheng smashed his tongue, and followed Yang Wu and Li Gaoliang, commander of the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, to the computer room.

Looking at the people walking towards this side, Xing Bian standing at the door of the computer room's eyes lit up slightly, and immediately greeted them with a smile.

"Academician Wang, you are finally here!"

"you are?"

"Xing Bian, an agent of the Security Bureau, is in charge of investigating this incident. This is my business card." Said Captain Xing skillfully took out a translucent holographic card, and gently pushed it in front of him.

Academician Wang Sicheng frowned and glanced at the holographic card. After hesitating for a moment, he still accepted it.

It's not because of any bad opinion of the criminal captain, it's purely because normal people feel somewhat uneasy when dealing with people from this "secret agency".

"I have read the report about what happened here. In order to facilitate further investigation, I need to know more specific circumstances."

Xing Bian: "Everything we know has been written in that report, I believe you have read it, as for the others... sorry, we know very little."

Seeing that Captain Xing didn't look like he was lying to himself, Academician Wang didn't say anything more, nodded to the students who came here with him, and then walked into the computer room.

"Unbelievable..." Looking around the computer room, Academician Wang, who was shocked by the scene in front of him, was a little lost for a while, but soon he regained his composure, and said to his students, "Prepare to intercept the data, let us see What the hell is it counting?"

"Good teacher."

The student nodded, walked forward with a suitcase, and opened the combination lock in front of one of the boxes.

Then he took out a round metal button from it, placed it on the chassis, and fumbled for a while on the casing of the chassis as if pinching a stethoscope.

It wasn't until the successful connection icon lit up on the electronic screen in his suitcase that he stopped his hands, left the metal button in place, and then operated on the laptop-like suitcase stand up.

"The data access is successful... The utilization rate of computing resources has reached 87%. The program running on this supercomputer is really not simple."

Looking at his students, Academician Wang frowned and said, "Can you retrieve the programs running on the computer?"

"I'll try... No way," the student continued with a serious look on his face, "This supercomputer has encrypted the program, and it is impossible to read it unless it has administrator privileges."

"I'll try."

Asking his students to stand aside, Academician Wang stepped forward and tapped his ten fingers on the mechanical keyboard, which was too old for this era, and entered lines of dazzling codes.

However, the quantum computer array that occupied the entire underground space, as if it hadn't seen it at all, completely ignored his series of operations, and still locked its secrets tightly inside the case.

Seeing that Academician Wang stopped what he was doing, Captain Xing couldn't wait to ask a question.

"How's it going? Is there any progress?"

"No," Shaking his head, Academician Wang said solemnly, "The security system of this supercomputer is very strong, at least I haven't seen any obvious loopholes... At present, the only way to crack the secret is There is a way."

Yang Wu frowned, thought for a moment and said.

"any solution?"

"Security key," Academician Wang pointed to the laptop in his hand with his chin, and continued towards the flickering dialog box, "Simply speaking, it is the administrator password. Unless we know the password, it is impossible to pass Other ways to hack in."

"What about brute force cracking?" Yang Wu frowned and said, "Looking at the length of the password... If you use exhaustive methods, the amount of work shouldn't be huge, right?"

"After three wrong input, the interface will be closed for three years. If you are patient, the project volume will not be very large." Glancing at Yang Wu, Academician Wang Sicheng continued, "And we don't even know now whether the password is a number or a password. Letters...or, unknown symbols."

The computer room fell silent for a while.

The investigation appears to be teetering on the brink.

"If it really doesn't work...we can physically destroy this supercomputing center," Li Gaoliang tried to suggest, "no matter what it is planning, as long as it turns into a pile of scrap metal—"

"In that case, its secret will go to hell with it," Yang Wu continued, interrupting Li Gaoliang, "this may be related to the origin of the Alpha virus, and it is also the biggest secret about the Alpha virus that we have so far. clue, and it may well be our only hope of getting rid of this trouble."

Academician Wang saw Yang Wu and said seriously, "The key now is to find the code... Have you found relevant clues from other places? For example, the space station near Ceres."

Li Gaoliang and Yang Wu looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

Although some clues were found on that space station, most of them were useless.

However, at this moment, Captain Xing, who was standing aside, suddenly spoke.

"That is to say... this password can be tried three times?"

"It should be," Academician Wang nodded, "but I don't recommend you to try it casually."

Xing Bian: "It's not a random experiment...can I use your laptop?"

Looking at Captain Xing, Academician Wang showed a surprised expression on his face.

"Do you know the password?"

"I don't know either," Xing Bian said with a wry smile, "but here... I happen to have a line of passwords, although I don't know if it's used here."

Yang Wu's heart moved, as if he had thought of something, he said immediately.

"Could it be that line of formula? You have already solved it?"

Xing Bian nodded.

"To be precise, Academician Lu unlocked it."

Walking to the side of the laptop, Xing Bian typed the line of numbers that Lu Zhou gave him earlier on the keyboard, and then hit the Enter button.

Seeing this scene, everyone involuntarily held their breath. Especially Academician Wang and his students were so nervous that they almost raised their hearts to their throats.

There are only three chances.

If it fails, it can only wait until three years later.

Fortunately, what they were worried about did not happen. The light blue cursor flickered on the computer, like a key that opened the door to a new world, and the screen was filled with codes in an instant.

Looking at everything in front of him, Academician Wang's pupils shrank instantly, and then a touch of ecstasy appeared on his face.

It worked!

The password is correct!

It's amazing!