Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 11/10/2015 02:23 PM, Stanislav Nikolov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/10/2015 09:17 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 11/10/2015 02:00 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:
>>> I guess from this your assuming that everyones passwords that
>>> have been hacked are god, birthdays and such?
>>> 
>> Again: assume that I'm not an idiot, and that I know how to choose
>> a long, random password. It cannot be brute-forced. And if it
>> could, adding an SSH key encrypted with a password of the same
>> length would provide no extra security.
>> 
>> 
> 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


And since no one seems to believe me, if you could try a million
passwords a second (over the network!), it would take you about
75,272,093,955,210 years to try half of those combinations.