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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:26:02
Message-Id: 564244BC.1080208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning by Stanislav Nikolov
1 On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote:
2 >>
3 > Are you sure you know how such keys work? An extremely 15 character
4 > password (Upper case, lower case, numbers, 8 more symbols) gives you
5 > ~4747561509943000000000000000 combinations. Just a simple 2048 bit
6 > key on the other hand (~180 of which are "secure")
7 > 1532495540865888858358347027150309183618739122183602176. Thats ALOT
8 > moar. You don't have to generate the key from a password!
9 >
10
11 I don't have to brute-force the key. The key is encrypted with a
12 password. How long is that password?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning Stanislav Nikolov <stanislav.ltb@×××××.com>