Traveling without a secret key
Stefan Claas
sac at 300baud.de
Thu Jul 9 11:46:04 CEST 2020
Ángel wrote:
> On 2020-07-08 at 23:24 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote:
> > Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote:
> >
> > > The thing is, if you can't remember a string of random words, are you likely to remember a string 20 random letters,
> > > numbers, and characters? Generally, if your non-randomly-generated password is easy for you to remember, it's also easy
> > > for a computer to guess. Diceware is the attempt to make something easy as possible to remember while still being truly
> > > high-entropy. If you're really paranoid you don't use the javascript program to generator your random phrases, you buy an
> > > EFF book and roll some casino dice. The entropy comes from the dice and so is verifiable.
> >
> > How do I do that when traveling, because I can't memorize the diceware pass phrase and then roll dices and tell via a
> > non-secure channel my now generated pass phrase, or do I make a mistake now in thinking?
>
> You only use the dices suggested by Ryan for creating a new password.
This is the problem what I mean ..., When I create a diceware pass phrase with dices (prior traveling)
I can't memorize the the words. If I would use the dices after arrival I do not have a way to transfer
the pass phrase securely.
[...]
Thanks for explaining the detailed procedure.
Regards
Stefan
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