• sus@programming.dev
      2·
      4 months ago

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

        • sus@programming.dev
          2·
          4 months ago

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

          • bjorney@lemmy.ca
            1·
            4 months ago

            “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@programming.dev
              2·
              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.