GnuPG private key resilience against off-line brute-force attacks (was: Re: Backup of private key)

[John Clizbe]

Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
>> Difficult question to answer, since everyone is going to wave around
>> their opinion. :)
> 
> There are some empirical facts which may be useful, though -- like
> observing the RC5-64 project was able to break a 64-bit key via a
> massive distributed project that took 18 months of runtime.
> 

And estimates for RC5-72 including Moore's Law effects were hovering at 18 years.

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