Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jeff Smelser <tradergt@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:21:04
Message-Id: CAGymGE=jObGDoVR2d=5o6vv8SZBU4CRDMqvBuxqxBF4JRwM1ZA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning by Michael Orlitzky
1 I am going to stop this convo. As soon as you say it cant be brute forced,
2 I am going to move on.
3
4 Good luck with that.
5
6 On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
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8 > On 11/10/2015 02:00 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:
9 > >
10 > > I guess from this your assuming that everyones passwords that have been
11 > > hacked are god, birthdays and such?
12 > >
13 >
14 > Again: assume that I'm not an idiot, and that I know how to choose a
15 > long, random password. It cannot be brute-forced. And if it could,
16 > adding an SSH key encrypted with a password of the same length would
17 > provide no extra security.
18 >
19 >
20 >