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Re: [TCLUG:11721] Email Security (was Re: [TCLUG:11699] Mess ...)
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:00:56PM -0600, Thomas Veldhouse wrote:
>
> A brute force attack with organized password guessing could break
> it quite quickly, I have no doubt. I doubt you like typing
> "R#%%SXZDAE%^#@A" every time you send an email. So, you probably have
> some rational password.
I do, but I took the word 'passphrase' rather literally. It's
quite long, with mixed case and symbols.
> - the only thing required is the password. Brute force will probably
> succeed in a matter of hours on a fast machine (the keys could be
> downloaded to one).
Quite true. But the attacker would have to know a lot about me
personally, which would require some sort of research effort. Even then
I would question whether or not the attacker could brute force it in any
reasonable length of time.
Anyway, enough...
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