this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
1626 points (98.6% liked)
linuxmemes
21355 readers
1311 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
- These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
you memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.
Sure but we aren't talking about that
I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually.. though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post
"can you string words to form a valid RSA key"
"Yes this is the most secure way to do it"
"No, it's not when there is a fixed byte length"
-> where we are now
the direct chain I can see is
"can you string words to form a valid RSA key"
"I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]"
"words are the least secure way to generate random bytes"
"Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords."
"You memorize your RSA keys?"
so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I'd say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.