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antonvsyesterday at 3:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

My passwords are in an encrypted block in a text file that can be unencrypted inline in an Emacs session with a keystroke sequence that looks like a cat just chased a mouse across the keyboard, and that's before entering the decryption password. To access it, an attacker would first have to learn Emacs. Pretty sure that's a post-quantum level of security.


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NonHyloMorphyesterday at 7:29 PM

Nefarious I like it

mmoossyesterday at 5:58 PM

They could use an LLM to lookup your HN posts and then to wrangle Emacs. Or just decrypt the text in another application - I doubt Emacs is the only platform for whatever crypto method you use. M-x rot13 ?

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dpoloncsakyesterday at 4:05 PM

Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/

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syed_qutub3yesterday at 4:53 PM

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