Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 10:08 AM 3/19/01 +0530 ]
> I sometimes use an 8-12 character string picked from any one of my last few> PGP-encrypted messages - guaranteed to be more random than mkpasswd...:) I don't whether to describe this as incredibly smart or incredibly paranoid...
Then you wouldn't even want to hear about the protocol we developed for exchanging passwords over the telephone...;-) It's not general-purpose, unfortunately, as it depends on a 'seed' exchanged out-of-band. Clue: it has something to do with pi or similar transcendental numbers with incompressible random expansions.
Udhay
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