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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.
From:       Jude DaShiell <jdashiel () panix ! com>
Date:       2023-09-20 17:54:57
Message-ID: 8a2a5169-4c91-041-e6f5-15f9ddaee02d () panix ! com
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Another possibility is to write down encrypted passwords and don't
disclose encryption technique.  The rot13 is worthless.


-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, Hoël Bézier wrote:

> Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no
> >one could ever guess?   I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and
> >it does a good job.   I make up my own tho when encrypting drives.   I'm
> >not sure I can really use Bitwarden for that given it is a command line
> >thing, well, in a script in my case.   I doubt anyone would ever guess
> >any of my passwords but how do people reading this do theirs?   Just how
> >far do you really go to make it secure?   Obviously you shouldn't give up
> >much detail but just some general ideas.   Maybe even a example or two of
> >a fake password, just something that you would come up with and how.  
>
> For storing passwords, I use app-admin/pass.
>
> For choosing passphrases, I write sentences. I know having space character at
> a predictable frequence in the passphrase makes it easier to find out, but
> using phrases makes it easier to come up with very long passphrases (which, I
> believe, balances the space thing, though I'm no crypto expert), which are
> also easy to remember.
>
> Hoël
>
>

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