Re: encryption
On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 12:43:54 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
>
> On 04/21/18 08:20, Brian wrote:
> >On Fri 20 Apr 2018 at 17:07:10 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >> As scrypt is going to prompt you for a passphrase anyway, why don't
> >> you leave the script unencrypted and revise it to prompt for the
> >> "important password"?
>
> Please comment.
One might assume that the script could have a unencrypted option to
select between a number of "important passwords", each of which might
be a long, complex, unmemorable string, subject to frequent changes,
and (or because) exposed to the rest of the world.
OTOH the passphrase protecting the script might be a single, simple,
fixed, memorable string only exposed to users on the machine in question.
Cheers,
David.
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