• bjorney
    11·
    2 months ago

    Sure but we aren’t talking about that

    • sus@programming.dev
      2·
      2 months ago

      I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually… though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post

      • bjorney
        11·
        2 months ago

        “can you string words to form a valid RSA key”

        “Yes this is the most secure way to do it”

        “No, it’s not when there is a fixed byte length”

        -> where we are now

        • sus@programming.dev
          2·
          2 months ago

          the direct chain I can see is

          “can you string words to form a valid RSA key”

          “I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]”

          “words are the least secure way to generate random bytes”

          “Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords.”

          “You memorize your RSA keys?”

          so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I’d say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.