On Sat 23 Dec 2017 at 18:43:38 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 03:14:25PM +0000, Curt wrote: > > On 2017-12-23, Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > [...] > > > > And I suppose, guessing 15 digits will cause a loooooong time [...] > > > (Assuming all 95 printable ascii characters) link to % time savings: > > [...] > > > An interesting mathematical quirk about this ratio of the number of > > passwords > > shorter than n [...] > > It's interesting how threads among us geeks can be totally derailed > by a simple strawman (i.e. no-stars >= stars "because of security"), > while the OP's motivation was rather "familiarity" (at least (s)he > didn't say anything about security), which in itself is legitimate > enough. > > And watch this thread wander off to the woods on whether no-stars > is more secure than stars, and whether significantly so. > > Fascinating :-)
Motivation is in http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2017-December/016347.html There are mainly 2 reasons behind this proposal: 1. Security by obscurity (hiding the length of pass-phrase) 2. consistency -- Brian.
