Re: [TCLUG:11721] Email Security (was Re: [TCLUG:11699] Mess ...)

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

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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