-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2015 10:32, Samir Nassar wrote: > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 10:26:53 AM Anne Wilson wrote: >> Personally I prefer my password to be reference to a book - and >> you haven't a snowball in hell's chance of knowing which book or >> what reference to it :-) I doubt if even my closest family would >> guess the book. > > You might be wrong, you might be right, at most you are right for > the situation you live in. > > Part of the discussion happening here is about general principles > that cover cases where the risk is assessed to be adversaries who > are making trillion guesses per second. > I'm cautious, but not paranoid. Since the result looks like a random sequence it would not be easy to crack, and there are certainly easier places for "him" to go. However, I appreciate that in some circumstances, for example corporate accounts, you may have to take some additional precaution. I do feel strongly, though, that the more complicated something is, and the more "steps" it takes to complete the entry, the more you increase the risk.
A personal opinion, though. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlUX6wcACgkQj93fyh4cnBfX1QCfXL9Tv1peMBvRXi0iaclyMGww jsUAniWlJT//9M9HbaGoaG3OW1ZQojCM =vmqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
