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        3 months ago

        you memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.

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            3 months ago

            I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually… though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post

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              “can you string words to form a valid RSA key”

              “Yes this is the most secure way to do it”

              “No, it’s not when there is a fixed byte length”

              -> where we are now

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                3 months ago

                the direct chain I can see is

                “can you string words to form a valid RSA key”

                “I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]”

                “words are the least secure way to generate random bytes”

                “Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords.”

                “You memorize your RSA keys?”

                so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I’d say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.