Fwd: is there any remote possibility to recover passphrase?

2008-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all and thank you for GnuPG! I was wondering whether one attacker who'd be in possess of my private and public keys, my entire archive of encrypted data, and a common file which for sure is just plain the same as an encrypted one of my backup, could in some way and time recover my

Re: Fwd: is there any remote possibility to recover passphrase?

2008-01-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gpg, but let my keys available to the attacker, would he theorically be able to crack my passphrase and recover all of my archive? Yes. Please note how you qualified that: /theoretically./ In practice, given a good passphrase, this is highly nontrivial.