About Symmetric Ciphers.

[Johan Wevers]

Werner Koch wrote:

> 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.

Personally I don't, but to be honest I still use 128-bits IDEA for my
archives (I doubt scientology will be able to break that by brute-force
anyway). But if you use entire sentences for your passphrases, with
ElItE c00l spelling and so, wouldn't that suffice?

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