First: Sure, with enough anything can be brute forced. But what happens when that "enough" isn't possible?
Brute forcing (alone) 256-bit keys is a joke. It's just not a issue. Second: Being investigated by animal rights folk does *not* make you a terrorist. Now back to being on topic but still slightly off... I think a laptop you keep with you all the time is a pretty good shot. :) On 9/6/05, the dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect, with enough horsepower and resources, any encrytion can be > broken. > > I am sure, at one point, all encrytion was thought to be unbreakable. > > peace, > clark 'the dragon' willis > > > > PSA: Salary <> Slavery. If you earn a salary, your employer is renting your > services for 40 hours a week, not purchasing your soul. Your time is the > only real finite asset that you have, and once used it can never be > recovered, so don't waste it by giving it away. > > I work to live; I don't live to work. > > "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you > can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people > spend it for you." > > Carl Sandburg > (1878 - 1967) > > ----Original Message Follows---- > > Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > >I imagine if the NSA really wanted to decrypt a gpg-encrypted message, > they > >have the resources to do it. It would probably take them a while if they > had > >to use brute force > > No, they can's do it by brute force. Look even at the power requirements > to do such a calculation: we're talking about an energy consumption that > is more that the entire sun will radiate during its entire lifetime. > I'm pretty sure that's beyond anything even the NSA can deploy. > > If they are able to decrypt pgp/gpg, it will be because they either broke > an algorithm or implementation of it, or they have obtained the key by > other means (keylogger, hidden camera, tempest, virus, torture). > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
