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Miscellaneous documentation updates. Finished a first draft of the
Pageant chapter; wrote something about passphrase lengths; added \versionid to all chapters that didn't have it yet. [originally from svn r1415]
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\versionid $Id: pubkey.but,v 1.6 2001/09/25 19:59:14 simon Exp $
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\versionid $Id: pubkey.but,v 1.7 2001/11/25 16:57:45 simon Exp $
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\# FIXME: passphrases, examples (e.g what does a key for pasting into
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\# authorized_keys look like?), index entries, links.
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should always enter a \e{Key passphrase} and \e{Confirm passphrase} to
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protect your keys.
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\# FIXME: Mention a good length for a passphrase. (I think Schneier
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\# said something about this on counterpane.com once.)
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\# In case people don't like the idea of exchanging a short password
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\# typed every time for a longer passphrase typed every time, link
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\# to the Pageant chapter.
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(Choosing a good passphrase is difficult. Just as you shouldn't use
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a dictionary word as a password because it's easy for an attacker to
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run through a whole dictionary, you should not use a song lyric,
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quotation or other well-known sentence as a passphrase. DiceWare
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(\W{www.diceware.com}\cw{www.diceware.com}) recommends using at
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least five words each generated randomly by rolling five dice, which
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gives over 2^64 possible passwords and is probably not a bad scheme.
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If you want your passphrase to make grammatical sense, this cuts
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down the possibilities a lot and you should use a longer one as a
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result.)
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Finally save the key by pressing the \e{Save} button. Do not close the
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window but proceed with step \k{pubkey-gettingready}, otherwise you
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