faster way of determing if the passphrase is correct or not

[folkert at vanheusden.com]

> > That's what it is for yes (http://www.vanheusden.com/nasty/) - altough
> > I also create friendly programs (http://www.vanheusden.com/gpgstats/ - generate
> Passphrase crackers are in fact very useful tools to check for
> security problems.

True. Though: the current version needs 2 days (on a P4 2,8GHz) for a character
set of 63 (a-z+A-Z+0-9+' ').
I'll see if I can code a version doing the passphrase-change.

Folkert van Heusden

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