Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-10 Thread Ryan Malayter
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, i

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-10 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Folkert van Heusden wrote: >>>IIRC 200/s on a 2.8GHz P4 >>>I discussed improving nasty with an unnamed gpg-expert and he thought it >>>should be feasable to do at least a million per second. But as nasty is >>>a proof of concept I can't get myself

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-10 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > IIRC 200/s on a 2.8GHz P4 > > I discussed improving nasty with an unnamed gpg-expert and he thought it > > should be feasable to do at least a million per second. But as nasty is > > a proof of concept I can't get myself motivated to improve it. > The password hashing is supposed to make it *di

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-10 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Folkert van Heusden wrote: > IIRC 200/s on a 2.8GHz P4 > I discussed improving nasty with an unnamed gpg-expert and he thought it > should be feasable to do at least a million per second. But as nasty is > a proof of concept I can't get myself mot

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-10 Thread Folkert van Heusden
IIRC 200/s on a 2.8GHz P4 I discussed improving nasty with an unnamed gpg-expert and he thought it should be feasable to do at least a million per second. But as nasty is a proof of concept I can't get myself motivated to improve it. On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:57:50AM +0930, Roscoe wrote: > Curiou

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-09 Thread Roscoe
Curious, anyone know how many passwords/second that gets? On 8/10/05, Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it is not too long (too many characters), try 'nasty': > http://www.vanheusden.com/nasty/ > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:10:20PM +0530, Thutika, Srinivas (ODC - Satyam) > wro

Re: Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-09 Thread Folkert van Heusden
If it is not too long (too many characters), try 'nasty': http://www.vanheusden.com/nasty/ On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:10:20PM +0530, Thutika, Srinivas (ODC - Satyam) wrote: > Hi, > > After creation of the key I forgot the pasword for that key. > > Is there any way that I can get the password ag

Forgot the key passowrd

2005-08-09 Thread Thutika, Srinivas (ODC - Satyam)
Hi, After creation of the key I forgot the pasword for that key. Is there any way that I can get the password again. Regards, srini -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 9:55 PM To: gnupg-users