Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

[Javier <javuchi@gmail.com>]

owens@netptc.net escribió:
>>
>>
>> ---- Original Message ----
>> From: javuchi@gmail.com
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line
>> attack?
>> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:53:27 +0100
>>
>>> Ron Johnson escribió:
>>>> On 02/23/2009 09:26 AM, Javier wrote:
>>>>> Ron Johnson escribió:
>>>>>> On 02/23/2009 01:28 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>>>>> 2009/2/21 Javier <javuchi@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> I'm actually using encfs to protect my sensitive data,
>>>>>>> Eh...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       http://xkcd.com/538/
>>>>>> That's known as Rubber Hose Decryption.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh yes, but if he had the chance to scape, at least the files
>> continue
>>>>> to be untouchable....
>>>> Given enough time, and resources, *nothing* is untouchable.  It's
>> just a
>>>> matter of whether They think that the time-effort is worth being
>> spent
>>>> on *you*.
>>> Do you mean that there is a way to crack a 256bits AES?
>>>
> Yep! Given enough plaintext and ciphertext and enough time (or
> parallel compute power and less time), a brute force attack will
> always work.
> Larry

What do you mean with "always work"? I mean, is it not going to take one
million years or so? For example, if you encrypt your /home.