Harold Fuchs wrote:
On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Comments inline.The only real way to defeat a dictionary attack is to destroy the encrypted document after <x> failures (x = 3, 5 ?) and hope the attack isn't lucky within that <x>. One can also delay things considerably by saying "after <x> failed attempts you can't try again for <n> minutes".
I think that this should be the default. Of course if someone wishes, they could write an application to get around this limitation so we are back to a good algorithm to encrypt the data.
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