Re: Hack PGP on xasamail.com

From: Saint Anthony (saintpatrick_at_xasamail.com)
Date: 01/18/05

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    ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) As mentioned by a previous poster, if you could recover the file thats your best/only bet. You will not find a private cracker though. Once you lose your privates you're a bit SOL as it's made of both your pass phrase and random system noise .

    Anthony Towry
    Student

    mailto.woden@gmail.com wrote:
    > Hi.
    >
    > I have a delema that is quite strange but then again feasable. I
    > did a
    > backup on my system and wiped my harddrive and then installed
    > everything from scratch.
    >
    > My problem was that the PGP keys where locked down on my
    > harddrive and
    > couldn't be copied by the backup system. I didn't check and now
    > I'm
    > left with a few PGP files without any keys. The public key is
    > floating
    > around on the net and I have the password to the secret file but
    > no
    > secret file.
    >
    > Is there any tools available on the net to bruteforce a PGP
    > decryption? Or is the meare fought unfeasable so nobody has
    > created
    > such a tool?
    >
    > best regards
    >

    > --
    > Daniel Persson
    > mailto.woden@gmail.com

        http://www.xasamail.com/

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