Forgot the key passowrd

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 11:28:55 CEST 2005


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Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> IIRC 200/s on a 2.8GHz P4
> I discussed improving nasty with an unnamed gpg-expert and he thought it
> should be feasable to do at least a million per second. But as nasty is
> a proof of concept I can't get myself motivated to improve it.
> 

The password hashing is supposed to make it *difficult* to crack
passphrases, because of the computational cost!

Don't find a fast way to break them and force us all to use 200
character passphrases!

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