To crack 17-character AES password: 100 years and 1 billion dollars
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March, 2008 (AES, compression, encryption, Rijn Dael, Security)Posted in Security
In my previous ‘Free File’ article, I briefly reviewed the open-source compression-utility 7-Zip. Like most other archiving tools, 7-Zip is also capable of encrypting your files. To do this, it utilizes industry standard AES-256 encryption (a.k.a. Rijn Dael) and recommends a password strength of 10 characters or more. The Help-function in 7-Zip has a nice illustration [...]
