Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Well, that easy to remember method just went down in flames. Sigh...
That's the first diffuse but significant wisdom we found in this thread: If you can memorize it without the help of publicly knowable details of your life, then it's too easy to enumerate with nowadays' hardware. Another wisdom is that Theodore T'so, a well reputed and mindful person who is also the kernel maintainer of "RANDOM NUMBER DRIVER", flatly thinks that /dev/random is legacy as soon as the system is fully up. The reason why this is still not fully reflected by the man page is not yet uncovered. It might have its roots in the sloppy mathematical discussion style of people like those quoted in https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/#experts except, i'd say, Thomas Pornin who is quoted with "indistinguishable from true randomness, given existing technology." Probably the others have moments of more exactness, too. But at least in their quotes this is not to see. An important argument is that of the armored safe with cardboard backplane. If you have a really good password and really manage to memorize it in your brain alone, then there are other real life methods to get to your private stuff. Insofar i confess that all my resisting and objecting is more sport than real business. My aplogies to all annoyed bystanders. I will do it again. Have a nice day :) Thomas
