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    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

    Replying to a 10-year-old tweet is a power move in itself.

    [–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    this is gold yet I don't know anyone who would get it that I can share it with

    [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I just shared it with a bunch of people while also telling them that I didn't care if they didn't get it and I wasn't going to explain it.

    They're used to this.

    Edit: 2 of them got it. That's pretty good for me. I've played to smaller crowds.

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

    That's why we come to the internet. Real life people suck.

    [–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I wonder if you string together enough words can it be a valid key?

    [–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I would hope so, sentences and words are some of the most secure passwords/phrases you can use

    [–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    Words are the least secure way to generate a password of a given length because you are limiting your character set to 26, and character N gives you information about the character at position N+1

    The most secure way to generate a password is to uniformly pick bytes from the entire character set using a suitable form of entropy

    Edit: for the dozens of people still feeling the need to reply to me: RSA keys are fixed length, and you don't need to memorize them. Using a dictionary of words to create your own RSA key is intentionally kneecapping the security of the key.

    [–] shrugs@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    so you are saying 44 bits of entropy is not enough. the whole point of the comic is, that 4 words out of a list of 2000 is more secure then some shorter password with leetcode and a number and punctuation at the end. which feels rather intuitive given that 4 words are way easier to remember

    [–] cheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    then someone uses a dictionary attack and your password gets cracked within minutes

    [–] shrugs@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

    see, you didn't get the whole comic. 4 words out of a dicitionary with 2000 words has more combinations then a single uncommon non gibberish baseword with numeral and puction at the end. as long as the attacker knows your method.

    a dicitonary attack will not lower the entropy of 44 bits, thats what the comic is trying to say

    [–] wizzim@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

    While the joke is funny, what is the context? Why did she post the original tweet in the first place?

    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago