Re:How to securely encrypt a file with an insecure password ...
by tptacek on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:12PM
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Because all possible UTF-8 characters give you passphrases that are hard to write down, hard to transcribe from paper onto keyboard or vice/versa, hard to repeat aloud, and hard to recognize visually.
The tradeoff for using a smaller character set is longer passphrases (for shorter character sets) versus "less humane" passphrases, for a given level of target entropy.
The tradeoff for using a smaller character set is longer passphrases (for shorter character sets) versus "less humane" passphrases, for a given level of target entropy.