THe key length is irrelevant if you're sending your private key over the wire. Nothing needs to be cracked if they get your private key.
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: > that's a 1024-bit kit. it's not supposed to be that easy to hack it, > right? I never consider yahoo to be safe. :P > > > email account to be secure I hope. Any wannabe script kiddie will crack > > that account in less than a minute, grabbing your private key, checking > > the header for the originating ip address, and 10 seconds later sitting > > at a command prompt as root. Don't expect a flood of offers as a > > SysAdmin anytime soon. > > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
