Re: crypto for criminals?
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Re: crypto for criminals?

From: Alan <a__l__a__n@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 17:40:18 CEST

clem wrote:
> The next paragraph is directly copied from their site:
>
> Your pass phrase is digested by six different one-way hash functions
> to produce 1088 bits of unpredictable key material, providing for a
> very large number of possible keys (3.31e+327). This number is so huge
> as to make it a formidable obstacle to brute force attacks, which is
> one of the many advantages to multi-pass encryption.

So finally I only need an easily remembered password, since all those
different hash functions make it so formidable to attack! How about
"password"?

It's so much easier now!

Alan
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:43:46 2005