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Brute-forcing a 55-character password is a transcomputational problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcomputational_problem), i.e., it's impossible to accomplish using a computer the size of the earth within the expected lifetime of the earth. So I wouldn't worry too much about it.


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