On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES wrote:
A human can easily remember 26 random letters from a 32 character alphabet with a little mnemonic method (eg map each character to a word so that it makes up some sort of dumb story). 5*26==130 which is more bits than computers can currently exhaust over.
True, especially if you salt with a suitably long random number and combine the two with a sufficiently nasty serial computation.
Most of this thread does not, despite the strong wordings, actually concentrate on what average people *can* do but what they are likely to do when they do not have any real reason/incentive to guard their privacy.
Sure, probably 70% or more of real apss phrases are crackable, but that's not strictly the fault of the software. It doesn't really matter either, if they &really& have no "reason/incentive to guard their privacy". Tim