Maybe I'm dumb, but how do you read the article?
Ah, you click on "All Formats". Which is apparently a synonym for the verb "read".
No! you click on the pdf button which... uh... opens an empty firefox tab
Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
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Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#12My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key.
Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager.
Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#13My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key. Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager. Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#14My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key. Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager. Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
Wear a helmet and hip pads, but failing that split the password in half (as in literally the first half and the second half, don't try to get fancy with crypto) and give the halves to two people unlikely to collude. Your computer will no longer have 5th amendment protection, though.
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#15My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key. Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager. Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
You could try Entropy Keycrypt -> https://entropykey.com/features
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#16Is there a good pen-and-paper OTP authentication mechanism?
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#17Is there a good pen-and-paper OTP authentication mechanism?
otpw PAM module does this.
https://manpages.debian.org/buster/libpam-otpw/pam_otpw.8.en...
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#18My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key. Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager. Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
Wear a helmet and hip pads, but failing that split the password in half (as in literally the first half and the second half, don't try to get fancy with crypto) and give the halves to two people unlikely to collude. Your computer will no longer have 5th amendment protection, though.
Or better, use `Shamir's Secret Sharing`
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#19My biggest challenge as I’m getting older is remembering my long secret key. Even with a password manager that requires me to remember only a few passphrases (personal and work being two), there is a non zero chance now that a fall and a concussion would lock me out of my password manager. Anyone else have a solution or a suggestion for this problem?
Biometrics?
Re: Protecting Secrets from Computers (2023)
#20What about reducing our usage of the Internet and using local resources instead? Personally I have local mirrors of various code repositories, and thousands of ebooks. If you want to nearly eliminate all surveillance, then you can air-gap your computer?
So we shift back from the collective (networked) systems to a more individualistic local information store? We already have local AI models, which is a step in the right direction.