AES-NI, symmetric key generation

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Wed Mar 11 19:13:47 CET 2015


> Thanks Vedaal, yep that would be one mighty strong password!

It's also way overkill.  :)

"gpg --armor --gen-rand 1 16" will produce a (relatively) short
passphrase suitable for pretty much any imaginable usage.  128 shannons
of entropy's nothing to sneeze at.



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