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Comment author: hyporational 21 October 2013 08:32:44PM *  0 points [-]

Of course that's different from passwords (where you have salted hashes and usually a limit on the number of tries

I don't understand what you mean by this. How are salting and limits properties of passwords (but not passphrases)?

Comment author: lsparrish 22 October 2013 02:16:41AM 0 points [-]

What I meant is that those properties are specific to the secret part of login information used for online services, as distinct from secret information used to encrypt something directly.

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