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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Speaking of long-ish passwords
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:48:09 -0700
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On 6/21/2024 10:12 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 6/21/2024 3:01 PM, Rich wrote:
>> Cri-Cri <cri@cri.cri.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:45:24 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>
>> Chris very much so likes to "insert" his hmac cipher into every
>> discussion thread, even those where it is off topic (although the
>> off-topicness is questionable here....).
>>
>> He did this so much that Richard Heathfield killfiled him a couple
>> years back after having become frustrated with his "insertions" (among
>> other things).
>>
>> It is best to just ignore his off-topic insertion of quasi-advertising
>> of his hmac cipher into every thread.  If this becomes too much,
>> there is always the killfile method of ignoring the posts.
> 
> I was just thinking of how to create a complex password from a simple 
> password. My work came to mind, however, it does not work because it 
> creates a new ciphertext for every encryption. So, that sucks for the 
> task at hand.

Humm... I wonder if I should alter the UI to allow for a user to turn 
this aspect on or off... Hummm... Default would be the way it is. 
Turning it off means that a simple password will always generate the 
same complex password. Humm...