On 07.07.2013, Hauke Laging wrote: > Even with the default settings a 19-digits passphrase (upper and lower case > ASCII letters and digits) is as hard as AES (without flaws).
When you take all printable ASCII-chars as "headroom", with B = entropy in bits L = length of the passphrase P = amount of possible chars ("headroom") then B = (L*log P / log2) will calculate your passwords entropy in bits. Your 19-chars password accounts for 124 bits of entropy, which is nearly half of AES-256's strength (there are P^L different passwords). One assumes that in most cases, trying 50% of all possible passwords will lead to success). _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users