-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/25/2015 12:50 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Thursday 24 December 2015 17:02:54 Matthias Apitz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I do not fully understand why some 4 random words like >> >> Correct, horse! Battery staple! >> >> is a better passphrase like, for example >> >> Und allein dieser Mangel und nichts anderes führte zum Tod. >> >> i.e. some phrasing which could be memorized better? > > The second sentence is found by search engines (2 hits in > DuckDuckGo). Don't use it or any other phrase that's has been > published on the internet. A phrase of 4 random words has a high > probability that it has not been published on the internet (or > anywhere else). The tricky part is that you must never put your > 4-random-words phrase into a search engine to check this. > > Instead of using a 4-random-words phrase you can use a proper > sentence with equivalent entropy provided that you do not use a > sentence that has been published anywhere. Come up with your own > sentence. Ideally come up with a sentence that doesn't make any > sense like "The horse was correct. You cannot staple batteries." > This phrase might be easier to remember and has a similar entropy > as the above mentioned 4-random-words phrase. > >
A favorite of mine, not usable then, and even less so now, is the following: At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire In Latin, that is a palindrome. It is now the name of a musical composition, and has a group of its own on Facebook. https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/510001 - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 10:35:01 up 1 day, 11:08, 2 users, load average: 4.16, 4.24, 4.19 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJWfrg0AAoJEBZthAoMYQyLcOMH/3q0mmnai7E49VontTna/2gf yZD9FHbiVE7tQl2OZmjNa16AzVMwpTlJxpS82/n3/8ljVxWbyd0JzdStAyq4xONV hdYN05SL6A43L8dobaO0IQLMB7ZdzJYawQW8wLfKQzevXMMXMiGg5BLMVdhNMqWo TPOLu8GFPfDGqC1P6EzKplCremb2NsMvrxw1RpxQcNwIksz1S3XO+YZWAYegUmsC fUCVH3qgTNrlaiG/FFGqBols0RJYS9EsWC/0EWSOZN0TCqzfoWbwPSse76HolV9Y lkXklPCxaqwan09jtkGwwSye1sTTHjmHA6t1YtK8yRxNc5k/zQKiY3mvLtt23Nc= =2AOW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
