[pass] Adding support for symmetric encryption

Matthieu Weber mweber at free.fr
Tue Jan 26 17:03:48 CET 2016


On Tue 26.01.2016 at 10:14:46PM +0700, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2016, at 20:29, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> Furthermore, even with a 12 byte passphrase, it???s user generated,
> so it???s unlikely to be truly random, which decrease the search
> space (often significantly).

http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html solves that problem.

> So in practice, I think asymmetric encryption is the better/stronger
> choice.

You only displace the problem, by having to protect your private key
with a passphrase.

Matthieu
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