[Discuss] Password managers

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 13:42:08 -0400
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> What are you trying to accomplish with these 16-random-characters? 
> That's only about 75-bits of entropy, so not a very good encryption
> key, so you must mean password. So what are you trying to do? Stop a
> brute force guessing foe? Give me some arithmetic for why you need
> 75-bits of entropy for that... (And why doesn't your bank need 75-bit
> PINs?)

No.

You tell me why you think these are encryption keys when I was quite
clear that they are passwords?

You tell me why you think 16 random characters is inappropriate for this
purpose.

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Rich Pieri