Introduce randommess in keypress timings

Travis Biehn tbiehn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 08:49:19 PDT 2015


Morelike 1 bit. Amirite? [The song you selected.]

Personally, I like to pipe /dev/urandom to my speakers for sourcing
keypress-timing based passwords.

-Travis

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Michael Nelson <nelson_mikel at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >Five minutes of Swedish death metal should get you around 256 bits.
>
> Wrong entropy source, if you go for Norwegian black metal you get at least
> 1024 bits of entropy [0].  Having said that, Putin's foreign policy
> speeches
> will get you at least 512 bits of entropy in the same time frame.
>
> Peter.
>
> [0] From an estimate done at Tons of Rock in Norway in June of this year.
>
>


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