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Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

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On Sat 23 Dec 2017 at 10:25:10 +1300, Richard Hector wrote:

> On 21/12/17 22:16, Curt wrote:
> > On 2017-12-20, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote:
> >>> Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies
> >>> as "security by obscurity"
> >>
> >> I think most people accept that obscurity is quite reasonable for
> >> passwords ...
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> > 
> > Wonderful, Dick, however, I was referring to the specific expression
> > "security by (or through) obscurity," which denotes something else.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
> 
> I'm aware of that concept. But making it harder to see the length of the
> password makes it harder to guess the password, no? Which has got to be
> good?

Definitely. Knowing the password is twenty characters reduces the time
taken to guess it from ten billion years to an estimated five million
years.

-- 
Brian.

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Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars root kea <rootkea@gmail.com> - 2017-12-18 20:40 +0100
  Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-12-18 21:30 +0100
    Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-18 22:30 +0100
    Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars root kea <rootkea@gmail.com> - 2017-12-19 19:00 +0100
      Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-12-19 19:30 +0100
        Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars root kea <rootkea@gmail.com> - 2017-12-19 20:10 +0100
          Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-12-19 21:10 +0100
          Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-12-19 22:50 +0100
            Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars root kea <rootkea@gmail.com> - 2017-12-20 12:10 +0100
              Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-20 14:10 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-12-20 23:40 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-21 10:20 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-12-22 22:30 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-23 00:00 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2017-12-23 14:00 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-12-23 14:40 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-23 16:20 +0100
                strawman [was: LUKS password gets printed as stars] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-23 19:10 +0100
                Re: strawman [was: LUKS password gets printed as stars] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-23 20:50 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-21 11:50 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-21 12:10 +0100
          Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-12-19 23:10 +0100
            Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-20 08:50 +0100
              Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-12-20 12:00 +0100
                Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-12-20 12:40 +0100

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