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Comment by xkiwi | Hacker News Reader

Interesting.

I always wonder about this: in order to decrypt a file/volume encrypted by TrueCrypt, user just need to type their NOT-SO-LONG password. With today's capability such as EC2 or quantum computing as you mentioned, isn't that just minutes away to crack a 12 digi password?

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Number of passwords ("126-31" coming from http://www.asciitable.com/):

    >>> (126-31)**12
    540360087662636962890625

How many years would this take if you could test each password in .0000000000001s?

    >>> (((126-31)**12)*.0000000000001)/60/60/24/7/365
    244.78151394444308

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