Timeline for How easy is it to crack gpg with private key, but without password
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| Jan 3, 2015 at 15:00 | comment | added | Tim Jonas | If you were using and the attacker had possession of it. using a keyfile it would make a attack slower but not my much. Because you enter the password keyfile gets unlocked then keyfile gets sent to gpg and runs it against private key. Unlocking keyfile takes time. sending keyfile eg. 512bit long to would take gpg longer to process than a 8 character password | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 14:14 | comment | added | HC Haase | thanks.. but would it be faster than cracking an encryption that don't use a keyfile (like AEScrypt)? or would be equally strong/vulnerable? because the password is the only obstacle in both cases? | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 14:14 | history | edited | Tim Jonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2015 at 14:07 | history | answered | Tim Jonas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |