Hi, I know, the longer password the better... But I wanna ask you, which password length is good and which is too bad. My pw is more than 20 chars long - are i'm paranoid? thx catfish On Sat, July 18, 2009 06:17, Arno Wagner wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:34:11AM -0400, Eric Grejda wrote: > Arno Wagner wrote: > > No to nitpick, but my approach would be to not boot the computer > > at all, but remove the drive and copy it (e.g. attached by USB) > > on a different machine. > > Then they start attacking the keys of their copy. Fair enough; can't do > anything about that but try to use the strongest keys possible. If they > pull it off, I'd love to hear how they did it, assuming that I'm still > around. Actually they start attacking you and if you destroy the original, they just hurt you a bit more and restore from that backup. Brute-forcing something like LUKS is currently only feasible for very weak passphrases. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
