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| From | Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Writing passwords down |
| Date | 2024-12-18 20:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JV7U5-zzp-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2024 11:57 -0600, from john@sugarbit.com (John Hasler):
> >> Surely no one "has perfect knowledge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I
> >> have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't!
> >
> > But which things about you can you be sure no one else has knowledge of?
> > Most people seem to think that the name of the dog they had when they
> > were 12 is an unguessable secret.
>
> Pretty much. Or the phone number you had at home as a child. Or your
> favorite color. Or your mother's maiden name. Or that you have used
> Debian since year Y. Or which year your great-grandmother died.
>
> If I generate a Diceware passphrase - let's take one from that page as
> an example, "dean unissued mystified comfort everyday chokehold" -
> then I can tell you exactly how I generated it and what the inputs
> were ("6 words selected at random out of the EFF English long Diceware
> word list, separated by single U+0020 space characters") and this
> won't really help you, because the search space is still (6^5)^6 or
> about 2^77.
>
But how do you remember it? It's no more memorable than a string of
numbers, in fact I find numbers easier to remember than words.
--
Chris Green
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Re: Writing passwords down George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-21 01:40 +0100
Re: Writing passwords down Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-12-21 04:30 +0100
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