Re[4]: Revoked keys on keyservers

[Stefan Nobis]

DeBug <debug@centras.lt> writes:

> Yes indeed, if too many keys are sampled from the pool of 2^N
> then it becomes easy to crack by randomly generating new keys and
> looking whether you've generated a key already in use :)

If it's that easy, it's unsafe even without key-servers. What you describe is
a brute-force attack and it's not easy, because there far too many keys to try
(for 1024 Bit a single PC will take some million years to try all possible
keys if i rembemer the numbers correctly).

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Until the next mail...,
Stefan.