[Cryptography] Recommendations for short AES passphrases

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 04:57:51 EDT 2016


On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Sidney Markowitz <sidney at sidney.com> wrote:
> A minor point, but RFC1924 explains why using b85 is better than b94 if you
> want to encode 128 bits. Short form of the explanation is that both of them
> need 19 and a fraction chars to hold 128 bits, i.e. they both will encode to
> 20 chars, and b85 lets you choose more characters for other uses such as to
> delimit the string.
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924

b95 rfc helps something else I was working on, thx. Though the overall
idea to show greater scaling achieved at higher powers with wider bases.
In this case, yes it's marginal.


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