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This presents quite a quandary in deciding which is more secure: a 16-character semi-mnemonic memorizable sequence, or a 128-character random sequence that must

by jeromec 16y ago

This presents quite a quandary in deciding which is more secure: a 16-character semi-mnemonic memorizable sequence, or a 128-character random sequence that must be stored on a USB stick? Considering that the record for number of decimal places memorized for Pi appears to be 67,890 I'd argue memorizing a 128-character random sequence would be both possible and most secure. ;)

billswift 16y ago
Entering it at a keyboard without mistake would probably be a lot harder.
- abalashov 16y ago
  And if nothing else, utterly tedious.
- praptak 16y ago
  For symmetric ciphers, 128 bits, not characters is considered secure. Assuming the uuencode character set [A-Za-z0-9+/] it's 6 bit per character, so 22 chars only. Quite doable.