[arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

Bennett Piater bennett at piater.name
Tue Jun 25 09:29:32 UTC 2019


On 2019-06-25 11:09, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:35:53 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Are you familiar with https://xkcd.com/936/ ?
> 
> Too funny, that is the method I described and while I was writing my
> email, you posted that cartoon. However, even this suffers from the
> pitfall, that it is not that easy to use this mnemonic as described by
> the cartoon.

I use diceware passphrases for my master passwords (login, hardware 
encryption, GPG, password manager) and they are much easier to remember 
than normal (safe) passwords.


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