Ill say what i always say again, its a good idea to keep your data both secret (keep it away from prying eyes) AND encrypted. sometimes both are not possible, but you should try when you can.

For example, bitcoin, this is almost never possible because by design, you give out your public key.

However, secret documents and messages can be both secret and encrypted. You only give the encrypted data to whoever needs it.

Pretty sure every single one of us has been on the list since 2009 when bitcoin was invented. Cheers.

Made possible by the nearly unnoticed NDAA!

Once you get to that point, you can just hash the part you remember and use the hash as the password. The part you hash would still need to be strong, and it would force the cracker to either, use hashed values, the actual values, or both. We could also go the route of using patterns instead of characters.

The red dots are places where red dots on other shapes "lock". The basic idea is that you would be making a vector object, then use that code as the password. Again these are vector objects, so size does not matter. all that matters is that the correct shapes are connected correctly in the right orders, etc..

256-bit is not two times stronger than 128-bit. The strength of encryption grows exponentially, not linearly. 256-bit with current computing technologies and more's law might be safe for more than 10 or probably 200 years. It might be safe till the end of time.So the TripleDES is finally broken? Or Blowfish, or SHA-1 hash function? What is complex encryption scheme? Some Rube-Goldberg encryption using data destruction and outdated ciphers or TrueCrypt? TrueCrypt is actually not so complex at all, in terms of usability and ease-of-use. This statement by incomptetent spokesperson makes no sense at all to me.GSM is no encryption at all, it is merely a obfuscation. NSA and any government agency can listen at will, they already have copies of GSM encryption keys and direct access to operator's infrastructure. Maybe using voice recognition and data mining all conversations nationwide is one of the purposes?In some countries being drunk while committing crime (such as telling it will be good if someone nuke arseholes in NSA) is going to ad additional years to sentence.I'm located in Eastern Europe and I have veiled Arab man in my avatar, now I'm a foreign terrorist! Nuke with dirty Iranian nuclear bomb the capitalist terrorists and abduct CIA president while sniffing train of anthrax letter cocaine and buy Rolex replica watches cheap! Sh*t, that smoke was a strong one!Is it something similar to MDMA? I will visit Silk Road to find out more The password in GPG is used to protect the private key in case if the file containing key is fallen in hands of enemy. It is not related to quality of the keypair. If enemy only have your public key, the quality of the password protecting your private key does not matter. Only the source of randomness is important, and computers are known to be poor at generating truly random data without hardware random number generator.

Where passwords are the weakest link, they must be strong and random. In 1 month average human can remember password containing 30+ ASCII characters.