Re: [PLUG] Woo Hoo! I Made Hackaday!

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/16/2026 10:42 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:

> I'm a bit surprised that it lets you guess passwords forever, but I
> suppose if I knew it would take 180 trillion years to brute force I
> might not bother writing any code to lock out the party that's trying
> to crack the code, either.
>     
    Google actually took an approach like this in their design of user profile encryption on ChromeOS.  They didn't use the TPM in a conventional way, but they used it in a manner that forces all decryption attempts to go through it, with unlimited retries.  The TPM itself effectively limits the brute force rate, and the process relies on a key stored in the TPM so it can't be done in any other way.
-- 
Rich
  

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