Tim May & I had a conversation about this in which Tim posted the great analogy of searching galaxies in the possible passphrase space. The thread covered the question pretty well. Adam (Tim, do you have a copy of your post? I can't think of the right search terms for Altavista) snow wrote: | A very basic question then: | | What _would_ be a passphrase of sufficient length and entropy? | | I would assume that the phrase "Off we go, into the while blue yonder" | would not be sufficient, but what about "0ff they went, in'ta the black viod"? | | I would guess that either would be difficult to out right guess, but the | second would be considerably less likely. Not as unlikely as | "KIB&^%(*h89hgv&*hjV6*ibHF&90n", but a hell of a lot easier to remember. | | It has been several months since I read the PGP users guide, and I don't | remember any discussion of that in it, but I could be wrong. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume