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White_Wolf · 01-13-2008, 12:51 AM

I find that hard to believe. The 256-bit AES, and Blowfish are very hard to crack.

I once downloaded a RAR file from the web, and couldn't find the password to get into it, so I ran a few different archive password crackers, and the fastest archive cracker took over 90 hours and was still just working on a 5 digit password. If the password was in fact 30 or 40 characters long (such as a web address) this would have taken like about a decade to crack.

Granted my little Pentium3 runs at 900MHz
So let's say a hacker/FBI is running a super overclocked CPU at 9GHz, and my key is 200 digits long, there is no way that is getting cracked anytime this year.

So, I know there is an easy to use program that encrypts and decrypts simple text with that "256-bit AES". It's just a matter of finding it.

I suppose I could just send archives of a text files. Because archive encryption I already have.

01-13-2008, 12:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
White_Wolf Junior Techie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 91	Re: Text encryption tools I find that hard to believe. The 256-bit AES, and Blowfish are very hard to crack. I once downloaded a RAR file from the web, and couldn't find the password to get into it, so I ran a few different archive password crackers, and the fastest archive cracker took over 90 hours and was still just working on a 5 digit password. If the password was in fact 30 or 40 characters long (such as a web address) this would have taken like about a decade to crack. Granted my little Pentium3 runs at 900MHz So let's say a hacker/FBI is running a super overclocked CPU at 9GHz, and my key is 200 digits long, there is no way that is getting cracked anytime this year. So, I know there is an easy to use program that encrypts and decrypts simple text with that "256-bit AES". It's just a matter of finding it. I suppose I could just send archives of a text files. Because archive encryption I already have. __________________ HP Pavilion 7920 901MHz Intel processor, 256MB SDRAM, 30GB & 250GB IDE Hard Drives (NTFS) Audio= Intel 82801AA AC\'97 Audio Controller Video= Intel 82810 Graphics Controller OS= WinXP Pro / SP3 (32 bit)