[Cryptography] Very best practice for RSA key generation

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Sun Nov 10 14:55:39 EST 2019


On 2019-11-07 (311), at 17:10:43, Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> wrote:
> http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/3000-words-order.html
>
> Three thousand most common English words, listed in order, from newspaper statistics. Take the first 2048 of them, and then poof, you have an eleven-bit-workfactor/word list right for the taking. Or use them all, and then you have 11.55 bits per word.
Just what the doctor ordered.

Eleven words, one hundred and twenty seven bits, plus some password 
strengthening work factor that is worth a few bits.


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