On Fri 06 May 2011 at 11:54:28 +0300, George wrote: > So the attacker needs to guess my private key instead of my password. > How does that make his life more difficult, assuming my password was > very strong?
It is easy to construct a password which would take 10,000 years to guess or brute force. A key might succumb after 10,000,000 years. Imagine you are an attacker. You want an easy life. What decision would you make? Remember also that the password is stored on a medium which in normal circumstances is 100% safe and always available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110506094817.GJ13057@desktop
