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Can any of the ciphers in GnuPG be brute-forced? (www.gnupg.org)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was expecting the usual "It's gonna take millions of years", but I like this answer better. :D

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I wrote an article in a similar vein a month ago: Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks.

Stuffing the planet into a 100%-efficient furnace isn't enough to crack a 256-bit key.

I'm building off those ideas in what will be a little collection of programs that measures and generates passwords given physical constraints of a brute-force attacker (energy, power, mass, etc). The collection isn't really a collection yet; it currently contains almost one complete program: https://sr.ht/~seirdy/MOAC

Edit: URL typo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just use randomization an ger lucky that it gets it right on the first try lol