Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Werewolf escribió: > myself about password, url, username, etc. Down side, the secring.gpg > ring stored on it as well. Will have invistigate making a secring only > for decrypting, (sub keys) with the primary sec key stored else where. http://tj

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:11:23PM +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote: > > With respect to randomness, do you have an idea how passphrases which > use first letters of e.g. songs or poems (with lower and uppercase > letters in german) are rated? > It all depends on how big a pool of songs/poems you hav

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Myself, use apg or wapg depending on what OS I'm on at the moment. wapg is a windows version of apg that'll run from a ubs drive, also run portable version of gpg from same usb drive, then just encrypt info to myself about password, url, username, etc

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

Morton D. Trace wrote: [...] > here are some random 20char ASCII pass phrases > > bash-3.00$ apg -a 1 -M S -n 20 -m 20 > ^;@_*-<|./|;&/._;}.! > ?<&!\+~&;[//.~_-!|+] [...] I do actually use some passphrases like this, though usually with more letters and numbers in them (generated with gp

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

Am Mittwoch, den 22.10.2008, 15:40 +0200 schrieb Morton D. Trace: > ^;@_*-<|./|;&/._;}.! > ?<&!\+~&;[//.~_-!|+] > %/<|;*=#&_).$<$;~.}* > - -$/\&{%#$)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:}] > %\#`%%.[<&~!"*~}>.'_ > &>$\({-`]$$``/^):|\^ > :}$~$],|?)&>^`!>!:., > )+'[,/=*':%("|-{.?/! > !-_'/^?^?&>|?#'|& > - -:,&~,}**[%%(

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:15:13AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Glyph = one symbol in a language. It could be a single English letter, > a single Chinese ideogram, or a single Hangul phoneme. The more glyphs > in your passphrase, the more entropy you have (usually). English > accumulates abo

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: >> Robert is a professional Mathematician and actually _loves_ Numbers. > > I'm a software engineer nowadays, although my college degrees are on the > math-heavy side of theoretical computer science.

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

John W. Moore III wrote: > Robert is a professional Mathematician and actually _loves_ Numbers. I'm a software engineer nowadays, although my college degrees are on the math-heavy side of theoretical computer science. I think it's fair to call me a mathematician, but I'm not sure I can be said to

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Morton D. Trace wrote: >> Dear list readers I just found this article. > > Be careful of anything you get off the internet. This article is not > especially good. Mega Dittos! [I know this sounds like Rush Limbaugh 'list

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

Morton D. Trace wrote: > Dear list readers I just found this article. Be careful of anything you get off the internet. This article is not especially good. > Calculating the entropy of a password is here well explained, > I don't know if it is mathematically correct, [shrugs] Yes. No. The re

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 01:00 +0200, Morton D. Trace wrote: > Measuring the strength of a randomly selected password > > > Dear list readers I just found this article. > > http://www.redkestrel.co.uk/Articles/RandomPasswordStrength.html > > > Measuring the strength of a randomly selected passwor

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Faramir wrote: >> IIRC, once I saw somebody saying 128 bits is more than enough for a >> good passphrase. And that beyond that lenght, there was no real strengh >> gains... But maybe I am not recalling it correctly... > > Thi

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen escribió: > Of course, the trick there is 128 bits _of entropy_, not 128 bits _of > passphrase_. Conservatively speaking, there are probably about 1.5 bits > of entropy per letter of English text, meaning you'd need about an > 80-cha

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

Faramir wrote: > IIRC, once I saw somebody saying 128 bits is more than enough for a > good passphrase. And that beyond that lenght, there was no real strengh > gains... But maybe I am not recalling it correctly... This is something you've heard from a lot of people, probably, myself included. 12

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Shaw escribió: > On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Morton D. Trace wrote: ... >> GnuPG needs a pass phrase to protect the primary and >> subordinate private keys that you keep in your possession. ... >> What to do if the pass phrase needs to be stro

Re: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

passphrase: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase, === is this true? There is no limit in OpenPGP for a passphrase length, beyond that of the inherent limit imposed by the hash used for string-to-key conversion. So, for SHA-1, the passphrase can be up to 2^64-1 bits, or just under

There is no limit on the length of a passphrase,

: There is no limit on the length of a passphrase, === is this true? any file system always has a maximum file size. even ZFS has that. a Zetabyte cannot easily be neglected. The total sum of all elementary particles in the entire universe (open or closed) also is estimated to have an upper limit