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Message-ID: <20040320172624.GA24278@hockwold.net>
From: warlock at eskimo.com (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: pgp passphrase

On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 05:30:52PM +0530, Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Key won't do them much good if they don't have my passphrase :)
>
>cant the key be bruteforced in some kind of distributed fashion ? like
>spam sending bot we could also have key brute forcing bots ....
>

dunno, I'd be willing to listen to evidence that it could, but put it
pretty low down on the list of things to worry about. 


-- 
Jim Richardson     http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
When the DM smiles, it's already too late.
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