Comment on On cryptography and dogmasparentComments−pork14yIf I knew your passwords were all song lyrics, that's already a failure of security.−eru14yIn a sense. But it's a principle of cryptography that you assume the attacker knows all your schemes / algorithms, and only the random bits are secret.−pork14yYour scheme can be a few more random bits, selecting from a finite number of "schemes".−eru14yYes.
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If I knew your passwords were all song lyrics, that's already a failure of security.
In a sense. But it's a principle of cryptography that you assume the attacker knows all your schemes / algorithms, and only the random bits are secret.
Your scheme can be a few more random bits, selecting from a finite number of "schemes".
Yes.