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Comment by equivrel

I don't see the harm in leaving the option in, given that for some applications a longer passphrase is critical (not everything can use iterated hash schemes: for instance if you want to deniably encrypt a hard drive partition to look like random data).

EDIT: also, 'explicit' is a nice touch, makes some pretty memorable passphrases, but I hope you're not taking from a small list of profanities, since that would seriously diminish the entropy. Be sure to factor in the (probably) much smaller number of possible 'explicit' passphrases when doing entropy calculations.

parent equivrel 12 years ago

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