Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6...@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 18 Dec 2024 11:57 -0600, from j...@sugarbit.com (John Hasler):
> >> Surely no one "has perfect knowledge of you"! :-) I'm not even sure I
> >> have perfect knowledge of myself, in fact I'm pretty sure I don't!
> >
> > But which things about you can you be sure no one else has knowledge of?
> > Most people seem to think that the name of the dog they had when they
> > were 12 is an unguessable secret.
>
> Pretty much. Or the phone number you had at home as a child. Or your
> favorite color. Or your mother's maiden name. Or that you have used
> Debian since year Y. Or which year your great-grandmother died.
>
> If I generate a Diceware passphrase - let's take one from that page as
> an example, "dean unissued mystified comfort everyday chokehold" -
> then I can tell you exactly how I generated it and what the inputs
> were ("6 words selected at random out of the EFF English long Diceware
> word list, separated by single U+0020 space characters") and this
> won't really help you, because the search space is still (6^5)^6 or
> about 2^77.
>
But how do you remember it? It's no more memorable than a string of
numbers, in fact I find numbers easier to remember than words.
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Chris Green
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