[volunteergrid2-l] Backing up my DIRCAP

Brad Rupp bradrupp at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 16:35:24 UTC 2012


I bet you wouldn't work for Google for long if you used their computers 
to attack encryption algorithms or others.  ;-)

Brad

On 3/26/2012 10:30 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> Considering that my passphrase has about 100 bits of entropy... yeah,
> I'm fine with it :-)
>
> If you decide to do the same, you should consider that I have access to
> *far* more computing power than that... I work for Google :-)
>
> (But, still, 2^100 is a very large number -- I'm more worried that CAST5
> might be broken than that my passphrase might be brute-forced)
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:02 AM, slush <slush at centrum.cz
> <mailto:slush at centrum.cz>> wrote:
>
>     OT: Do you think it's good idea to post encrypted password to somebody
>     who has an access to equivalent of 2100x ATI HD 5970 in computing
>     power? ;-)
>
>     slush
>
>     On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org
>     <mailto:shawn at willden.org>> wrote:
>      > Here it is, attached for convenience and in-line for assurance
>      > (PGP-encrypted with a 128-bit CAST5 key derived from a 16-character
>      > passphrase composed of a random sequence of alphabetic, numeric
>     and symbolic
>      > characters -- now I just have to figure out where to store that ;-)).
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