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Comment by ajross

> Of course, there is no way in hell you can actually make the human brain store enough entropy perfectly

Sure there is. Have horse batteries taught us nothing?

https://xkcd.com/936/

Don't confuse key length with entropy. A properly-scaled PBKDF remains secure with as little as 48 bits or so. Needless to say, though, a 32 bit time value is hardly a properly designed key derivation input.

parent ajross 3 years ago

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