npub1z0…4kyzg on Nostr: Ivan, an imprisoned anarchist in France, released a public letter last week in which ...
Ivan, an imprisoned anarchist in France, released a public letter last week in which he says that the police managed to break the LUKS encryption on his Linux laptop. The password was longer than 20 characters:
https://nantes.indymedia.org/posts/87395/une-lettre-divan-enferme-a-la-prison-de-villepinte-perquisitions-et-disques-durs-dechiffres/
They had the computer since last summer, so there was enough time to brute force the PW using cloud computing, though it would certainly have been expensive.
This enemy site talks about using up to 10,000 computers with GPU acceleration to attack a LUKS password:
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/08/breaking-luks-encryption/
All of which is to say that what constitutes a good password has changed. One guideline is to use seven random words -- easy to remember,hard to force.
npub1dnw7u7vcq52d94340wkyyy2a08ayfatj65jlllzy43mns7dsvrxqchku9q (npub1dnw…ku9q)
https://nantes.indymedia.org/posts/87395/une-lettre-divan-enferme-a-la-prison-de-villepinte-perquisitions-et-disques-durs-dechiffres/
They had the computer since last summer, so there was enough time to brute force the PW using cloud computing, though it would certainly have been expensive.
This enemy site talks about using up to 10,000 computers with GPU acceleration to attack a LUKS password:
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/08/breaking-luks-encryption/
All of which is to say that what constitutes a good password has changed. One guideline is to use seven random words -- easy to remember,hard to force.
npub1dnw7u7vcq52d94340wkyyy2a08ayfatj65jlllzy43mns7dsvrxqchku9q (npub1dnw…ku9q)