Re: [Exim] certificate for exim/TLS

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 01:49:20PM +0100, Mike Richardson wrote:
> ... we use a 40bit SSL Certificate bought from Thawte.

40bit algorithms can be brute-forced in around an hour on an average
Pentium 2. (no, I don't remember the exact data), but that's about how
long it takes to do an exhaustive search of the keyspace.

They should not be regarded as "secure" in any shape or form.

MBM

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