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Answer by Thismight work
Submitted on 5/9/2004
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There is a program called pgpcrack that attempt to crack pass phrases with a dictionary. If you can help it out with even a partial approximation your pass phrase then you can probably get it cracked. The weakest link in pgp is the passphrase. English is considered to have about 1.7 bits of randomness per letter so a 35 letter phrase might be considered to have roughly a 56 bit level of randomness. But that doesn't take into consideration the use of a dictionary attack which if you used real words would greatly reduce your key space. There is a concern about 56 bit keys being too weak for financial purposes. Typically the the you have a secure phrase indicator will max out at about 35 letters.

Answer by Adam Ali
Submitted on 2/28/2005
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Question by UserX
Submitted on 2/18/2004
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Who can help me to crack this PGP protection (I forgot my password, What to do now?)

Answer by wookey
Submitted on 3/7/2004
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Basically, you can't. The encryption is very strong (unless you used a very short key size). It would take the NSA a long time to crack it. If you have the private key, the weakest link is probably your pass phrase.

Answer by tudormon
Submitted on 4/15/2004
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It's pretty hard. But it would take the NSA mere seconds... you don't happen to work there, though, do you?

Answer by dam
Submitted on 10/8/2004
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hey PGP program is very hard to crack even by the NSA

Answer by anno
Submitted on 6/18/2005
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It is not true, that the weakest link in pgp is the passphrase. PGP is not using RSA to create cypher part of PGP package...

Answer by Tavi
Submitted on 6/19/2006
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Does anyone know any Nasa Gui's :) ??? I'm wondering if this pgp protection can be cracked ! but i don't mean lose the password etc just crack it !!!

Answer by Edward & Karen Gallagher Of Longwood
Submitted on 11/13/2006
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PGP is very strong with its methods of Alg's it makes up as it moves along. Elcomsoft has a prog which works great but uses Brute Force. Basically after much study's PGP uses alternating Algo's thus you must use Brute Force to CRACK. Good Luck JMB!

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