making a passphrase by doubling a password and tweaking the end


making a passphrase by doubling a password and ...
\ Anonyma (8 Feb 2007)
. \ Robert J. Hansen (8 Feb 2007)

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Subject:	making a passphrase by doubling a password and tweaking the end
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	Anonyma
Date:	8 Feb 2007

(This is as much about ssh as gpg, but I figure there should be some
passphrase expertise here.)

Suppose my shell password is "SapNilph4" (I just got that from APG),
is it stupid to make a passphrase for an ssh or gpg key by doubling it
and changing the end, for example "SapNilph4SapNilph3"? Or am I
really wasting potential entropy this way?

thanks

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