On 09-Nov-2014, Vincent Bernat wrote: > The attribution is misleading. While xkcd has popularized this way of > getting password, it was previously known as diceware: > http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html > > It would be nice to mention that. That sounds like something to report upstream, perhaps for inclusion in the documentation. I don't think it belongs in the Debian packaging; do you? > Also, the provided list of words is quite large and may use long > words and derivative which may make the password more complicate to > memorize. For example, there are both "acknowledgment" and > "acknowledgement". The original list of words from diceware is 7776 > words long which provides a 90bit security for a 7-word passphrase. Okay. Again, that seems like an issue to report for upstream consideration, and doesn't affect the Debian packaging of this work. -- \ “Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.” —Bill | `\ Gates, 2004-01-24 | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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