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De - Pt| English Dictionary: passphrase | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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passphrase type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program {PGP}, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages. {(http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.page.html)}. (1996-12-21) | |
