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    Encription

    How secure is a hard disk encripted with AES 128bit encription found on pgp 7? can any one unscramble it with out the pass phrase?

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    Nope.....well...never say never....
    The NSA might, but sum 1 with a 98 box won't have a chance in hell...

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    Thanx Noia !! i can now sleep easy

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    The only way to break AES128 is to use a bunch of supercomputers, unless an internal weakness is found in the algorithm. Combined with PGP it should be pretty secure. How large are the keys for that version of PGP?

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    128bit and 256bit are the two options for encripting HDs

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    Originally posted here by scoundral
    Thanx Noia !! i can now sleep easy

    lol what are you hiding ?!

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    my bank accout details, a few music demos done by local bands, mp3s (for backup purposes) course work

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    The NSA can definitely crack 128/256-bit PGP; I don't know about AES since it's pretty new. I would upgrade to RSA with 1024 or 2048-bit keys and keep the AES also. For extra security, if you don't want to upgrade an of your algorithms, you could encrypt the files multiple times-- encrypt it once with one key, then encrypt a second time with another key, et cetera-- this is the equivalent of using very large keys. Using AES to encrypt the same file eight different times is the equivalent of using a 1024-bit key. You could also develop software that does this for you for a given number of iterations.
    That's how 3DES gets its security. DES has 56-bit keys and you can crack it in no time on a fast enough computer, but 3DES has the equivalent of 168-bit keys and is much more secure.

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    Didn't Evi Nemeth crack the DES encryption algorithm with some kind of supercomputer? (She's a co-author of the Unix System Administration Handbook http://www.admin.com) I don't have my book in front of me, so I can't look up the answer. I know I read it in there somewhere, though. If she can crack it, the algorithm isn't 100% secure, but for most uses (up to industrial-strength) it seems practical.
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