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On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote:
>> 
> Are you sure you know how such keys work? An extremely 15 character
> password (Upper case, lower case, numbers, 8 more symbols) gives you
> ~4747561509943000000000000000 combinations. Just a simple 2048 bit
> key on the other hand (~180 of which are "secure")
> 1532495540865888858358347027150309183618739122183602176. Thats ALOT
> moar. You don't have to generate the key from a password!
> 

I don't have to brute-force the key. The key is encrypted with a
password. How long is that password?