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Originally posted by Ezra
IIRC the password itself isn't stored anywhere, plus! just tries to decrypt the file with the given password and check the first couple of bytes for a special string that should be readable then. If it's not it will error that the wrong key was used.
Indeed, but I found a thread indicating that the first lines of the encrypted file could contain a clue about the password. Not much, but maybe its length?
And then there's the question iif the password is case sensitive. If it isn't, that would already seriously decrease the different possibilities.
