[messaging] "Pseudoword" base32 fingerprints

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 17:48:34 PST 2014


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:

> Do you have an example wordlist?  With a 65K dictionary you'll need 8
> words for a 128-bit security level.


What if you were to derive a 128-bit key (or more) using less entropy (e.g.
64-bits) but employing a password hashing function like scrypt?

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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