[AktiviX-discuss] Practical Security Advice for Campaigns and Activists

[Chris]

Hi

Just saw this on slashdot:

  How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence
  http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144058&threshold=5&mode=nested

It's about how the US secret services crack strong
encryption using distributed computing and custom
dictionary attacks and it links to this article:

  DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor
  Secret Service's Distributed Computing Project Aimed at
  Decoding Encrypted Evidence
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6098-2005Mar28.html 

Basically the weak point is often the password /
passphrase that people use...

This looks like an excellent place to point people for
choosing a passphrase:

  The Diceware Passphrase Home Page
  http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

We should probably start documenting this stuff on the
wiki... :-)

Chris
  
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