On 8/10/05, Alphax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long will 8 characters (standard unix password length) take to break > at present?
Using the supplied figure of 200 keys per second, and using only the 95 "printable" ASCII characters: (95^8)/200 seconds. Or about 1.1 million years! Obviously, if you know something about the structure of the password (inlcudes words, is mostly lower case, etc.), you can trim that way down. But 200 trials per second just isn't going to be verry effective for a brute force attack. -- RPM _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users