Re[4]: Revoked keys on keyservers

Stefan Nobis stefan@snobis.de
Sat Oct 20 09:04:01 2001


DeBug <debug@centras.lt> writes:


> Yes indeed, if too many keys are sampled from the pool of 2^N
> then it becomes easy to crack by randomly generating new keys and
> looking whether you've generated a key already in use :)
If it's that easy, it's unsafe even without key-servers. What you describe is a brute-force attack and it's not easy, because there far too many keys to try (for 1024 Bit a single PC will take some million years to try all possible keys if i rembemer the numbers correctly). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.