About Symmetric Ciphers.

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:

> > The OpenPGP WG agreed on 256 Bit.  I don't like it but some folks

> encryption only. I store some files encrypted but only encrypted with
> a symmetric key. I don't see the need for the asymmetric cypher for
> personal archival purposes.

Just curious how you achieve to create and remember a passphrase
yielding enough entropy for a 256 bit key, this seems impossible for
me without a hardware token.

  Werner

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