Re: Hack PGP

[James Eaton-Lee <james.mailing () gmail com>]

In short? No. People wouldn't use PGP if it were that easy to break!

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 07:06 +0100, Daniel Persson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a delema that is quite strange but then again feasable. I did a
> backup on my system and wiped my harddrive and then installed
> everything from scratch.
>
> My problem was that the PGP keys where locked down on my harddrive and
> couldn't be copied by the backup system. I didn't check and now I'm
> left with a few PGP files without any keys. The public key is floating
> around on the net and I have the password to the secret file but no
> secret file.
>
> Is there any tools available on the net to bruteforce a PGP
> decryption? Or is the meare fought unfeasable so nobody has created
> such a tool?
>
> best regards