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		GoblinSlayer on April 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function Diceware uses 7776 word dictionary, xkcd uses a shorter dictionary.

ravi-delia on April 20, 2023 [–]

My God, where on Earth did I get 100,000? I mean that's a lot of words, plausibly more than I will ever hear. And how did it just cancel out anyway so I got roughly the right entropy? This will frustrate me until I understand how I fucked it so totally

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