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minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoyou memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.
minus-squarebjorneylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoSure but we aren’t talking about that
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually… though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post
minus-squarebjorneylinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 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
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agothe 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.
you memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.
Sure but we aren’t talking about that
I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually… though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post
“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
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.