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From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:54:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a2a5169-4c91-041-e6f5-15f9ddaee02d@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQsbYedTV5AVRSFR@sparta>

Another possibility is to write down encrypted passwords and don't
disclose encryption technique.  The rot13 is worthless.


-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023, Hoël Bézier wrote:

> Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:36:13AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> >In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no
> >one could ever guess?  I use Bitwarden to handle website passwords and
> >it does a good job.  I make up my own tho when encrypting drives.  I'm
> >not sure I can really use Bitwarden for that given it is a command line
> >thing, well, in a script in my case.  I doubt anyone would ever guess
> >any of my passwords but how do people reading this do theirs?  Just how
> >far do you really go to make it secure?  Obviously you shouldn't give up
> >much detail but just some general ideas.  Maybe even a example or two of
> >a fake password, just something that you would come up with and how. 
>
> For storing passwords, I use app-admin/pass.
>
> For choosing passphrases, I write sentences. I know having space character at
> a predictable frequence in the passphrase makes it easier to find out, but
> using phrases makes it easier to come up with very long passphrases (which, I
> believe, balances the space thing, though I’m no crypto expert), which are
> also easy to remember.
>
> Hoël
>
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-20 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-19  5:36 [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too Dale
2023-09-19  8:26 ` Michael
2023-09-19  9:10   ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-20  2:41     ` Dale
2023-09-20  2:59       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-09-20  4:49         ` Dale
2023-09-20 20:22           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-09-20 20:51             ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-20 21:56               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-09-20  6:47       ` [gentoo-user] " hitachi303
2023-09-23 10:57     ` Wols Lists
2023-09-19 10:00   ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-19 11:13     ` Dale
2023-09-19 11:47       ` Michael
2023-09-19 13:30         ` hitachi303
2023-09-20  2:52         ` Dale
2023-09-20  4:19   ` Dale
2023-09-20 12:28     ` Michael
2023-09-20 18:05       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-09-23 12:39         ` Wols Lists
2023-09-23 13:35           ` Dale
2023-09-23 14:00             ` Wol
2023-09-23 15:05               ` Dale
2023-09-23 16:08                 ` Rich Freeman
2023-09-19  9:03 ` hitachi303
2023-09-19  9:13   ` Dale
2023-09-23 12:47     ` Wols Lists
2023-09-23 13:42       ` Dale
2023-09-23 15:44         ` Håkon Alstadheim
2023-09-19  9:16   ` Jude DaShiell
2023-09-19 11:22     ` Dale
2023-09-20 16:18 ` Hoël Bézier
2023-09-20 16:39   ` Jack
2023-09-20 17:54   ` Jude DaShiell [this message]
2023-09-27  9:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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