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From: Bob Miller <kbob@...>
Subject: Re: disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 08:13:37 -0800
James Harlow wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:40:16PM -0600, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> > I hope you people not only begin to use SSH key authentication, but
> > that you also use key authentication with a well chosen pass-phrase to
> > protect your private keys.
> 
> A good site resource for the creation of secure passphrases is 
> http://diceware.com/

There's also makepasswd, in the app-admin/makepasswd package.  It
creates passWORDs, not passPHRASEs, but the amount of randomness
should be equivalent if you use at least 12 chars.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com                     kbob@...

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disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
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Re: disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
-- Ian Leitch
Re: disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
-- Lisa Seelye
Re: disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
-- Matthew Kennedy
Re: disabling password authentication on dev.gentoo.org
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