On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:37:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:38:11PM -0400, Stephen H. Dawson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Dire need, hoping for help. > > > > I have my private and public keys, but you have neither the passphrase nor a > > revocation certificate. I need to revoke my published key. Can they > > recommend > > a bash script to discover the passphrase using brute force on the private > > key? > > That would render encryption useless.
Then it's useless. Because brute force will *always* succeed. It may not succeed in your lifetime, however. :-/ To the OP: someone probably could suggest a brute-force tool, but if your passphrase is strong enough to have been worth using then the tool would likely run far longer than you care to spend. That's the point of having a passphrase. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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