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Article #6734Re: Symmetric cipher security of GnuPG 1.0.4
From: Florian Weimer
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:54
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:54
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jtnews <jtnews@optonline.net> writes: > Does anyone know if there any limit > on passphrase length in GnuPG 1.0.4? AFAIK, there isn't one. > Is there a limit on the effectiveness > of very long passphrases due to the > implementation of the cipher algorithm? It doesn't make sense to have more entropy in the passphrase than the cipher algorithm can use with its key length (but too much entropy isn't harmful anyway). Obviously, there's no generic way to translate an entropy constraint to passphrase length limit.
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