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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] sus 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure but we aren't talking about that

[–] sus 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually.. though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"can you string words to form a valid RSA key"

"Yes this is the most secure way to do it"

"No, it's not when there is a fixed byte length"

-> where we are now

[–] sus 2 points 4 months ago

the direct chain I can see is

"can you string words to form a valid RSA key"

"I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]"

"words are the least secure way to generate random bytes"

"Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords."

"You memorize your RSA keys?"

so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I'd say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.