Limit of maximum password length

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sat Oct 27 10:28:10 CEST 2012


On 10/27/2012 3:58 AM, jv at dodec.lt wrote:
> I thought that during new key generation event I have to utilize system,
> keyboard etc all the time, I see that I was wrong.

Depends a lot on your operating system.  For most modern OSes it's not
required at all -- I see that you're running on Windows, and there it's
(generally) not required.  There may some exotic systems somewhere that
it is required, but I've never seen it be required for any desktop system.




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