From kde-devel Thu Nov 13 20:27:13 2003 From: Jason Keirstead Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:27:13 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=106875551623178 On November 13, 2003 2:10 pm, George Staikos wrote: > Quoting Jason Keirstead : > 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. Just cause I don't have the hardware doesn't mean my attacker doesn't. He may have some 1000 machine G5 cluster crunching away at it for a few months, I don't know. Besides, hardware is cheap. The point is that KWallet is subject to brute-force type attacks that a properly set up box's login is not. -- There's no place like 127.0.0.1 http://www.keirstead.org >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<