❦ 10 novembre 2014 12:36 +1100, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> :
>> 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?
It could be fit in the long description.
>> 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.
Yes.
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