• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I would hope so, sentences and words are some of the most secure passwords/phrases you can use

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      5 months ago

      Words are the least secure way to generate a password of a given length because you are limiting your character set to 26, and character N gives you information about the character at position N+1

      The most secure way to generate a password is to uniformly pick bytes from the entire character set using a suitable form of entropy

      Edit: for the dozens of people still feeling the need to reply to me: RSA keys are fixed length, and you don’t need to memorize them. Using a dictionary of words to create your own RSA key is intentionally kneecapping the security of the key.