GPG keys for multiple email accounts

Heinz Diehl htd at fritha.org
Sun Jul 7 14:03:43 CEST 2013


On 07.07.2013, Robert J. Hansen wrote: 

> A keyspace of 2^124 is nowhere near half of
> 2^255; it's not even particularly close to the square root of 2^255.

Thanks for clarifying, you are (of course) right. Didn't think for a
second before posting :-(

However, I wanted to demonstrate the relationship between the
length/keyspace of a password and the cryptography actually used. 
Or the other way 'round: why use (waste?) a lot of bits on
cryptography when it's much "easier" to bruteforce the 
password itself?




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