On Sat 21 Apr 2018 at 12:43:54 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 04/21/18 08:20, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 20 Apr 2018 at 17:07:10 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> >> As scrypt is going to prompt you for a passphrase anyway, why don't > >> you leave the script unencrypted and revise it to prompt for the > >> "important password"? > > Please comment. One might assume that the script could have a unencrypted option to select between a number of "important passwords", each of which might be a long, complex, unmemorable string, subject to frequent changes, and (or because) exposed to the rest of the world. OTOH the passphrase protecting the script might be a single, simple, fixed, memorable string only exposed to users on the machine in question. Cheers, David.
