On 8/23/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Aine Douglas wrote:
>> > to see what it actually does. I'm rather wary of just "passwords",
> > maybe it comes from what I know in the windows world, dummy
> > passwords protecting unprotected secrets. Nothing worse than snake
> > oil.
>> What makes you think ssh key pass-phrases wouldn't suffer from same
> problem?
>> At least with a local password *you* get to apply that policy
> (length, mix of letters, rotation, strenght checks, etc..).
What makes you think that a passphrase, however random, made to those
specs wouldn't correspond to a korean dictionary entry?
:-p
Aine.
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