From kde-devel  Thu Nov 13 18:10:07 2003
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:10:07 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106874729712877

Quoting Jason Keirstead <jason@keirstead.org>:

> If someone has login access to the machine and read access to the KWallet 
> files, all he has to do is copy off the files and brute-force attack them 
> later.  So the whole thing is pretty much moot.

   Sorry, when did you last brute-force a relatively large chunk of data
encrypted 16 rounds blowfish with a key generated with 1000 rounds of SHA-1?  I
would like to see this hardware.

-- 
George Staikos 
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