Re: The Biggest Threat to Bitcoin: The New American NSA Datacenter
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mmmmmmm imagine the Ghash's, but there more likely to use it for cracking pgp and truecrypt
Since they will just have a lot of parrallel processing power, and have not discovered any real vulnerability in those protocols, it seems it will be enough for truecrypt and gpg users to double they maximum key size and be done with it. As I understand it, the difficulty to crack them increases exponentially with longer keys.I use 4096 bits for everything, so I'm fine.
Using larger key sizes won't really do any difference unless your password also has double the entropy. We're slowly reaching a point where humans are having trouble remembering pass phrases with sufficient entropy (we're not there yet though!).Once you get to that point, you can just hash the part you remember and use the hash as the password. The part you hash would still need to be strong, and it would force the cracker to either, use hashed values, the actual values, or both. We could also go the route of using patterns instead of characters.
The red dots are places where red dots on other shapes "lock". The basic idea is that you would be making a vector object, then use that code as the password. Again these are vector objects, so size does not matter. all that matters is that the correct shapes are connected correctly in the right orders, etc..
