Matthias Apitz spake unto us the following wisdom: > El día Saturday, August 24, 2013 a las 03:53:21PM -0400, Ethan Blanton > escribió: > > Unless your password is very, very bad, a base64 encoding of the > > password should be of roughly similar complexity. Therefore, anyone > > who can remember your password can remember the base64 -- and reverse > > it. > > Not sure about this; > > $ echo password | openssl enc -base64 > cGFzc3dvcmQK > > While one can easy see with a short eye shoot and remember the token > 'password', it is not so easy pickup from the screen the token > 'cGFzc3dvcmQK'.
Right -- if your passwords are *really really bad* and stupid, it matters. If that's the case, though, you need to get new passwords ASAP. My passwords are things like Oj4=puC/8jq, which is of similar complexity to that base64 string. Please reread my original statement. Ethan
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