Re: It's a police state, why don't you use PGP?



T-Bone wrote:

I know enough to know that any crypto is only as strong as its
passphrase. If the "password cracker" is able to determine the proper
passphrase, then bingo, it doesn't matter how strong the encryption is.
Once they're able to capture enough packets its only a matter of time.

Then you at least should know that:
- a guy having something very important to hide will select a very strong
passphrase
- the time you need to break a passphrase grow exponentially with the length

Let say the guy select a 16 char passphrase uppercase,lowercase,digits,and
special chars making 64 total char space.
The strength of the pasword is going to be: 6.27e+28
If your brute force attack system can check a billion passwords/second
you need 2512308552583 years to test them all.

The "bad people" they are monitoring is anybody who opposes this
administration.

Oh please, you were doing so well. Now you've completely lost my
interest.

Why ? The stuff start to get interesting just now ... :-)


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