Re: Speaking of long-ish passwords

Rich wrote:

Oscar <oxxxxxxxxxxxs@gmail.com> wrote:

Op 22-6-2024 om 10:54 schreef Richard Harnden:

On 21/06/2024 21:31, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

... generating a
complex password from a simple password...

 
You can't actually increase the entropy
 

 
Perhaps, but the recent discussions here seem to boil down to "password
based key derivation functions" which may frustrate bruteforce attacks a
bit.

 
The thread has kind of drifted in that direction.  It began as a way to
try to "remember" a complex password by encoding it as "something else"
such that one might not need to worry should the stazi examine your
papers and find the "something else" in your possession.

Well, regarding "password based key derivation functions". I have uploaded
'red' to my GitHub repositories, which allows users to generate deterministic
Ed25519 key pairs, in hex notation. and then sign, for example, Usenet messages
(like this one). :-)

https://github.com/stefanclaas/red

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Regards
Stefan