Re: Newbie question on encryption keys

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:01:26 +0200, Ertugrul Soeylemez
<do-not-spam-me@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


You have to assume that every attacker already has some information
about you or your password. Probably he knows that you are using
repetition patterns in all or many of your passwords, which makes
attacking it much easier.

Quality of user passwords allows bad things. For example, one (quite
typical) online site had average password entropy (strength) less than
15 bits. So, If users can and use that kind of lousy passwords,
attacker has good chances for brute-forcing files without needing much
of that extra information.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/cfacf77ca70fd95b?&hl=en


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