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ryanlol on June 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First 10 Minutes on a Server

A very short one. Reasonable 10+ character passwords should remain out of reach for years.

Also, AFAIK there doesn't currently exist any very effective GPU cracking software for SSH passphrases.

chrisseaton on June 15, 2016 [–]

I went to lookup the algorithm GPG uses to encrypt private keys, to help answer the original question, but couldn't seem to find that information anywhere. Do you know what it is?

windsurfer on June 15, 2016 | [–]

According to a quick stack exchange search, OpenSSL uses 3DES for encryption of private keys.

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