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Code to brute-force PGP passphrase?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Wed Nov 29 16:00:37 1995

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:47:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

I have an old, forgotten PGP key for which I would like to issue a
revocation certificate (or maybe I stole somebody else's with an identical
name; who could tell?). I can put the key on a Mac, PC, or UNIX machine
(various flavors). I think I have a pretty good idea what the middle of
the passphrase contains, so I'd guess there are only about 2,000
possibilities to be explored. 

Anybody have code for any platform for cracking this? Alternatively, I
could just give you the key and wait for the answer. 

- -rich

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBMLzGmI3DXUbM57SdAQE8NAP9EKVkxVzsTPHQ0NcJJgU4aor8BQbjN2a5
OqNAkpeNoZOcn5NcqGBMjI6mVQbgVjnzDOdoDWngGmWbtruFcFjE1IM8iK/wScah
Caqo7SuKQqUMXB8mAC5pVYmdavJrOX4WPcl6nT2MkJTvnJe7YgiCMWIdm+4XCPZ/
YybyYhWf7XA=
=W5H8
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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