On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES wrote:
>A human can easily remember 26 random letters from a 32 character
>alphabet with a little mnemonic method (eg map each character to a
>word so that it makes up some sort of dumb story). 5*26==130 which
>is more bits than computers can currently exhaust over.
True, especially if you salt with a suitably long random number and combine
the two with a sufficiently nasty serial computation.
Most of this thread does not, despite the strong wordings, actually
concentrate on what average people *can* do but what they are likely to do
when they do not have any real reason/incentive to guard their privacy.
Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university
