[Cryptography] Of writing down passwords

Alexander Klimov alserkli at inbox.ru
Thu Sep 25 01:59:21 EDT 2014


On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Bill Stewart wrote:
> The security you get with writing passwords down is inherently 
> because it's physically written and kept in a physical location, not 
> on some electronic medium that could be cracked.

Beware of cameras! Their resolution now is so good that an attacker 
without physical access can steal all your passwords using the 
reflection in your eyes.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Kent Borg wrote:
> That is cool. Trusting the creation of the card is a question, but a
> really cool idea in general.

Generate you own with pwgen.

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Regards,
ASK


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