On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> [removed garbage about password auth being wonderful...] > > I don't feel passwords are any more or less secure than keys. In some cases > keys can be even less secure if you're doing agent forwarding.
Yes passwords are less secure than keys - egads. The amount of entropy in a key makes it impossible to brute force in this day and age (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA6kG-tOkBs) versus passwords which have much less entropy. You should still password protect your key in case your laptop/key storage is accessed. -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
