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From: Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club>
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Subject: Re: Memorizing a 128 bit / 256 bit hex key
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:01:19 +0200
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Rich wrote:

> Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:

> > Well, I guess this would then need a program to handle, right?
> 
> Yes, but you also need a program to handle the conversion from dates to 
> hex and back.  Granted, few would suspect that the "date" command was 
> used to convert the dates back into a 'key'.

And in case people are looking at bash's history, for to many date
usages, I have a 'del' command in my .bashrc. :-)

alias del=">~/.bash_history;history -cw;"

> > My Idea is to use no program for that, so that no evidence can be 
> > found on the device, in case someone is looking at it.
> 
> It could be a generic erasure coding program, and the exact parameters 
> (block size, amount of redundancy, etc.) are remembered and specified 
> only when it is run to 'check' the output.  Then it would, presumably, 
> be no more suspicious than the 'date' command itself (other than what 
> suspicion might be raised by the fact that most OS'es don't ship with 
> an erasure coder by default).

I guess, instead of an erasure program, I will only use date and put
the output in my argon2id program, for key generation, which also has
the option to overwrite the clipboard.

-- 
Regards
Stefan