What is the best way to crack PGP?
• Currently, the best attack possible on PGP is a dictionary attack on the pass phrase. This is an attack where a program picks words out of a dictionary and strings them together in different ways in an attempt to guess your pass phrase. • This is why picking a strong pass phrase is so important. Many of these cracker programs are very sophisticated and can take advantage of language idioms, popular phrases, and rules of grammar in building their guesses. Single-word “phrases”, proper names (especially famous ones), or famous quotes are almost always crackable by a program with any “smarts” in it at all. Go to Table of Contents • 3.10. If my secret key ring is stolen, can my messages be read? • No, not unless they have also stolen your secret pass phrase, or if your pass phrase is susceptible to a brute-force attack. Neither part is useful without the other. You should, however, revoke that key and generate a fresh key pair using a different pass phrase. Before revoking your old key,
