[BushCountry]

The chart you showed says the toughest encryption would take 83.5 days to crack at 1 billion passwords per second. Divide your 83.5 / 76.1 = 1.09 days for Project Bovine to crack.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Extrapolating a little here, but say JA used a combination of mixed uppercase, lowercase, symbols letters and numbers and took it out to 32 characters (the higest I've seen but probably not the highest available) then it's going to be quite a while. If password length is 8 characters at this level the combinations are 7.2 Quadrillion. I dont have a calculator large enough to guess what the combos would be at 32 then divide by the rate at which Bovine could attack it.

That being said, I am sure that JA is aware of this and using the best possible methods that he is aware of.

Can you run the numbers to see what would happen using the bove parameters?

Besides, the govt. will eventually crack it (probably 4Chan also) to see what it is, if it's legit, then they will know if he is bluffing or going "all in."

Thoughts?