"IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > So if I understand you correctly, it is the "seed" which is allowing us to > choose our own less secure phrases, and the seed makes it that much tougher? > So buy using the longest "bitwise" seed we can, we are more able to feel > comfortable with lower entropy phrases? Seed prevents an attacker from precomputing hashes of every dictionary string he has in _advance_. Seed _slows_ down dictionary attack as an attacker would have to recompute the hashes for each different seed, and he can't even start doing that until he knows your seed. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
