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To: sten
The ability to crack it would depend upon what you've used for a pass phrase. A large one 100+ characters with a representation from each class of character, would make it prohibitory expensive to crack. Somewhere on the internet I've seen a scale that gives an estimate of what it would cost (billions and billions).

An example of a pass phrase practically impossible to crack: 4Score&7YearsAgoOurFathersBrought4thOnThisContinentANewNation,ConceivedNLiberty,&Dedicated2ThePropositionThatAllMenRCreatedEqual!

17 posted on 02/03/2014 6:36:35 PM PST by Errant (Surround yourself with intelligent and industrious people who help and support each other.)
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To: Errant

actually, no. that’s the point of the snowden reveal.

the long passphrase is used to form your crypto keys which relies on a proper random number generator. if the set if random numbers isn’t billions and billions... but thousands... then it’s easily crackable


19 posted on 02/03/2014 6:51:42 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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