Re: Plot hole or a clue?
Posted: March 23rd, 2012, 7:09 pm
I can't say anything about Akemi's professor because I don't remember enough about that part to say, but as for Agasa saying the drive was strange:
depending on the method if encryption it's possible to analyze a volume and determine whether or not something encrypted is likely to be there, so he could have analyzed the disk and thought to himself "If this disc is just supposed to output this one line of text, why is there this huge area that might be encrypted? Something's fishy here." Also if the disk was meant to show its full contents when a password was input, unless it depended on an external program, the encryption/decryption logic that accepts the password would have to exist somewhere unencrypted on the disk, which Agasa would probably be able to find.
More likely though I'm guessing there wasn't much more thought to it than "Agasa is good with technology thus by TV rules he's the one who gets to divulge tech-related secrets to advance the plot".
depending on the method if encryption it's possible to analyze a volume and determine whether or not something encrypted is likely to be there, so he could have analyzed the disk and thought to himself "If this disc is just supposed to output this one line of text, why is there this huge area that might be encrypted? Something's fishy here." Also if the disk was meant to show its full contents when a password was input, unless it depended on an external program, the encryption/decryption logic that accepts the password would have to exist somewhere unencrypted on the disk, which Agasa would probably be able to find.
More likely though I'm guessing there wasn't much more thought to it than "Agasa is good with technology thus by TV rules he's the one who gets to divulge tech-related secrets to advance the plot".