Re: Decrypting .dat files

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:12:38 +0100, Schreck, Juergen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this would be against all
> purposes of pwsafe. If it would be so easy to decrypt the database you could
> hold your passwords in a plain textfile, too.

I though the main component of security lies in the choice of key, not
in the specific algorithm.

After all, decrypting the database by starting pwsafe is also "easy"
if you have the right passphrase; I do not see why a command-line
decryption utility *that requires you to know the passphrase* is less
secure.

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <[email protected]>


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