Me stupid: lost password for gpg
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Wed Dec 29 06:23:03 UTC 2004
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:58, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> man, 27.12.2004 kl. 18.01 skrev Russell Coker:
> > On Friday 17 December 2004 08:19, Paul Iadonisi <pri.rhl3 at iadonisi.to>
wrote:
> > > Maybe the new dual Opteron box I just ordered can crack the passwords
> > > for both our keys. ;-)
> >
> > I wrote a program to crack keys with a hacked version of gpg (at the
> > point in the code where it asks for the pass-phrase my code inserted a
> > loop to go through the passwords). It's ugly but with the recent
> > versions of gpg it works reasonably well (I discovered a memory leak
> > whereby gpg would lose a couple of hundred bytes every attempt at a
> > pass-phrase).
>
> What if it tried a dictionary first?
Using a dictionary might get a faster attack or make cracking a long password
feasible. But surely no-one is using a password that would be so easily
cracked...
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