On 06/02/14 01:08, Tony Arcieri wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Moritz Bartl <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hm. Sorry, stupid question, but why can't you simply map 4-tuples to a > 65k wordlist? Fantasy names, English, something more pronounceable? > There could maybe even multiple "authoritative tables" in various > languages. > > > I was just talking to Trevor about this very thing ;) It's the approach I'd > like to use. You can generate a random salt and run the password through e.g. > scrypt as well in order to derive a symmetric key > > -- > Tony Arcieri >
65k would be 16 bits. For some applications this could be enough, but to get up to a 160-bit long-term fingerprint this would be 10 words. Hopefully we can improve on this. -- GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
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