Comments on: Romanian Dicelist http://trilema.com/2012/romanian-dicelist/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:14:57 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Why I suspect Schneier is an US agent. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2012/romanian-dicelist/#comment-139419 Why I suspect Schneier is an US agent. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:57:52 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=44508#comment-139419 [...] applications is, of course, to simply gpg whatever you want to keep secret and forget about it. A properly made passphrase will keep your attacker sucking air out of a can indefinitely. 3. Once you have your computer [...] [...] applications is, of course, to simply gpg whatever you want to keep secret and forget about it. A properly made passphrase will keep your attacker sucking air out of a can indefinitely. 3. Once you have your computer [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2012/romanian-dicelist/#comment-101361 Mircea Popescu Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:35:25 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=44508#comment-101361 <Blockquote>Finally, a revisiting of the “worst password in the world” article is in order. Using a sentence as a password as long as it’s something you picked with your own head and it makes sense is indescribably stupid. </Blockquote> via <a href=http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/thereisnofatebutwhatwemake-turbo-charged-cracking-comes-to-long-passwords/ >Ars</a> : <Blockquote>Yiannis Chrysanthou, a security researcher who recently completed his MSc thesis on modern password cracking, was able to crack the password "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn1." That's the fictional occult phrase from the H.P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu. </Blockquote> So there.

Finally, a revisiting of the “worst password in the world” article is in order. Using a sentence as a password as long as it’s something you picked with your own head and it makes sense is indescribably stupid.

via Ars :

Yiannis Chrysanthou, a security researcher who recently completed his MSc thesis on modern password cracking, was able to crack the password "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn1." That's the fictional occult phrase from the H.P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu.

So there.

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