How much information can be gleaned about a gpg key by possessing both plaintext and ciphertext?
Robert J. Hansen
rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Fri Nov 21 15:47:35 CET 2014
> I know some encryption schemes reveal more information about the keys
> used when an attacker has both the plaintext and the ciphertext. In
> general, how much information does GPG reveal in such situations?
Virtually none.
> How much plaintext/ciphertext matched data would an attacker need (An
> order of magnitude is fine) before being able to reverse enough of
> the key to be meaningful on fairly modern computers?
Enough to make it far, *far* more cost-effective to resort to other
methods to recover your key. Just buying the hard drives alone would
exhaust the budgets of large corporations.
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