Forgot the key passowrd

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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!
> 
> 
> Apart from the fact that this is (more or less) security by obscurity
> even if my program would be a million times faster, 7 characters still
> would take a day.
> 

How long will 8 characters (standard unix password length) take to break
at present?

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