Private Key Generation from Passwords/phrases

[Joseph Ashwood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Bruestle" <mbruestle at masktech.de>
Subject: Private Key Generation from Passwords/phrases


> What do you think about this?

I think you need some serious help in learning the difference between 2^112 
and 112, and that you really don't seem to have much grasp of the entire 
concept. 112 bits of entropy is 112 bits of entropy, not 76 bits of entropy, 
27 bits of bull, 7 bits of cocaine, and a little bit of alcohol, and the 224 
bits of ECC is approximate anyway, as you noted the time units are 
inconsistent. Basically just stop fiddling around trying to convince 
yourself you need less than you do, and locate 112 bits of apparent entropy, 
anything else and you're into the world of trying to prove equivalence 
between entropy and work which work in physics but doesn't work in 
computation because next year the work level will be different and you'll 
have to redo all your figures.
                    Joe 


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