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Years? How long a password would you need to make GPU cracking take years?
by windsurfer 10y ago
Years? How long a password would you need to make GPU cracking take years?
- ryanlol 10y agoA very short one. Reasonable 10+ character passwords should remain out of reach for years. Also, AFAIK there doesn't currently exist any very effective GPU cracking software for SSH passphrases.
- chrisseaton 10y agoI went to lookup the algorithm GPG uses to encrypt private keys, to help answer the original question, but couldn't seem to find that information anywhere. Do you know what it is?
- windsurfer 10y agoAccording to a quick stack exchange search, OpenSSL uses 3DES for encryption of private keys.
- chrisseaton 10y agoYou're already given your own concrete time estimate - 'hours' - how did you work that out?
- windsurfer 10y agoAn old article I read about password cracking using EC2 while back... let me look it up.