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		billswift on Oct 6, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man jailed over computer password refusal Entering it at a keyboard without mistake would probably be a lot harder.

praptak on Oct 6, 2010 | [–]

For symmetric ciphers, 128 bits, not characters is considered secure. Assuming the uuencode character set [A-Za-z0-9+/] it's 6 bit per character, so 22 chars only. Quite doable.

abalashov on Oct 6, 2010 | [–]

And if nothing else, utterly tedious.

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