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    [–] sus@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Sure but we aren't talking about that

    [–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    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 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    "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 points 3 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.