Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

[Stanislav Nikolov]

On 11/10/2015 09:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote:
>> Are you sure you know how such keys work? An extremely 15 character
>> password (Upper case, lower case, numbers, 8 more symbols) gives you
>> ~4747561509943000000000000000 combinations. Just a simple 2048 bit
>> key on the other hand (~180 of which are "secure")
>> 1532495540865888858358347027150309183618739122183602176. Thats ALOT
>> moar. You don't have to generate the key from a password!
>>
> I don't have to brute-force the key. The key is encrypted with a
> password. How long is that password?
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1) The key is not encrypted.  
2) You don't need a password to generate a key.  
3) Don't go full retard, do your research before arguing.