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To: mewykwistmas

Anything over 80 bits is pretty unbreakable for now. If the cipher is good.

It’s very complicated though. You have to make sure the password is long and randomized cause it has its own bit value for length. The cipher’s 256bit is the limit of how strong it can be and it is, indeed, completely infeasible to break with a brute force unless quantum computers radically advance.

If you use a short and weak password though, it doesn’t matter how powerful the cipher is, it’s the weak link.


22 posted on 01/30/2011 5:10:08 PM PST by Tolsti2
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To: Tolsti2

“If you use a short and weak password though, it doesn’t matter how powerful the cipher is, it’s the weak link.”

Thanks, that’s what I thought. Which makes it impractical since you will need to write the 80+ 08ghDT$@hJ somewhere.


28 posted on 01/30/2011 5:25:45 PM PST by mewykwistmas ("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
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To: Tolsti2
Anything over 80 bits is pretty unbreakable for now. If the cipher is good.
Bruteforce + Cloud

Somehow I don't think that Microsoft will make an advertisement to use their Azure "cloud" to hack your neighbor's wireless.

65 posted on 02/01/2011 5:04:43 AM PST by The Theophilus
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