Special :: Security AES encryption FOREVER

[diceg...@hotmail.com]

Special :: Security AES encryption

says:

If you forget the password there is no way to retrieve it or your data,
FOREVER

being pedantic there is, guess it,

or write a program to try all possible starting from a , b, c, d,

which may take a long time

if the user can remember that their password was less than 30 characters
long

you could calculate how long it would take my laptop to run through all
possibilities,

i guess a few thousand years

being pedantic!

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[siredmond]

that is the point of encryption, to keep people out, if you forget
your own key, there is no way to let you back in.

On Oct 3, 4:25 pm, "Geo...@dicegeorge.com" <dicegeo...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

[legolas558]

Geo...@dicegeorge.com ha scritto:

> Special :: Security AES encryption
>
> says:
>
> If you forget the password there is no way to retrieve it or your
> data, FOREVER
>
> being pedantic there is, guess it,
>
> or write a program to try all possible starting from a , b, c, d,
>
> which may take a long time
>
> if the user can remember that their password was less than 30
> characters long
>
> you could calculate how long it would take my laptop to run through
> all possibilities,
>
> i guess a few thousand years
>
> being pedantic!

I would suggest a reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography#Public-key_cryptography

It is not impossible, just unfeasible without a consistent investment in
high-end specialzied hardware.
And, if you use a large enough key and an algorithm which works well at
those large key bitsizes (1024, 2048 bits for example), the data will be
anyway recoverable only within hundreds of years (considering the
current technological advance and the Moore law - and without
considering quantum computers, which might break the Moore law if
coupled with optical computers in a not so far future). Unless the
algorithm as a flaw, but that's another topic ;)

So, considering the lifetime of WoaS, a 256bit AES key is unbreakable
forever. The passphrase used to generate it, that is not - unless you
generated it in a truly random way.

Best regards,
--
legolas558

[_legolas558_]

Hi George,

I agree with you; the text will be changed in next version.

Best regards,
--
Daniele C.
WoaS Project Manager

Geo...@dicegeorge.com ha scritto: