At 03:24 PM 9/22/98 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
Bruce Schneier wrote:
(I suppose the 'remembered secret' has less bits then the 'password' that is to be retrieved from the pool of millions with the 'mathematical magic'). So the advantages of the scheme appear to remain unclear as a matter of principle.
The advantages are that offline password guessing is impossible.
The 'I' word always makes me nervous - do you really mean that, or do you just mean "very difficult"?
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