Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars
On Sat 23 Dec 2017 at 10:25:10 +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 21/12/17 22:16, Curt wrote:
> > On 2017-12-20, Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote:
> >>> Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies
> >>> as "security by obscurity"
> >>
> >> I think most people accept that obscurity is quite reasonable for
> >> passwords ...
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >
> > Wonderful, Dick, however, I was referring to the specific expression
> > "security by (or through) obscurity," which denotes something else.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
>
> I'm aware of that concept. But making it harder to see the length of the
> password makes it harder to guess the password, no? Which has got to be
> good?
Definitely. Knowing the password is twenty characters reduces the time
taken to guess it from ten billion years to an estimated five million
years.
--
Brian.
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