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From: Doc O'Leary ,   <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com>
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Subject: Re: Using Diceware, BIP39 and leetspeak for Argon2id keys
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:19:17 -0000 (UTC)
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For your reference, records indicate that 
Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:

> Well, what would you suggest then, as an example, some cool selfmade rhymes,
> easy to remember or a self made peom etc., spiced up with special chars
> between the words?

One semi-clever thing I did for encoding locations as words:

<https://www.impossiblystupid.com/node/227/?content=be-+-direction>

was to allow the word list to be used flexibly to construct more “meaningful” phrases.

> Eve can't know for sure what we can come up with in our minds, can she?

The mind is a poor random number generator, though.  That’s probably what makes it so bad at memorizing random *anything*.  So the tools we need are ones that add meaning, and do so without reducing unpredictability.  A tall order, to be sure.

-- 
"Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
River Tam, Trash, Firefly