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  • to be even more pedantic, if we follow the relevant official RFCs for http (formerly 2616, but now 7230-7235 which have relevant changes), a 403 can substitute for a 401, but a 401 has specific requirements:

    The server generating a 401 response MUST send a WWW-Authenticate header field (Section 4.1) containing at least one challenge applicable to the target resource.

    (the old 2616 said 403 must not respond with a request for authentication but the new versions don’t seem to mention that)



  • Actually I think he has already had an adequate amount of recognition:

    • “In 1999, Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.[29] That year both companies went public and Torvalds’s share value briefly shot up to about US$20 million”

    • his autobiography is in several hundred library collections worldwide

    Awards he’s received:

    • 2 honorary doctorates

    • 2 celestial objects named after him

    • Lovelace Medal

    • IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

    • EFF Pioneer Award

    • Vollum Award

    • Hall of Fellows of the Computer History Museum

    • C&C prize

    • Millenium Technology Prize

    • Internet Hall of Fame

    • IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

    • Great Immigrants Award


  • the direct chain I can see is

    “can you string words to form a valid RSA key”

    “I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]”

    “words are the least secure way to generate random bytes”

    “Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords.”

    “You memorize your RSA keys?”

    so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I’d say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.



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    if you know there are exactly two additional characters

    this is pretty much irrelevant, as the amount of passwords with n+1 random characters is going to be exponentially higher than ones with n random characters. Any decent password cracker is going to try the 30x smaller set before doing the bigger set

    and you know they are at the end of the string

    that knowledge is worth like 2 bits at most, unless the characters are in the middle of a word which is probably even harder to remember

    if you know there are exactly two additional characters and you know they are at the end of the string, the first number is really slightly bigger (like 11 times)

    even if you assume the random characters are chosen from a large set, say 256 characters, you’d still get the 4-word one as over 50 times more. Far more likely is that it’s a regular human following one of those “you must have x numbers and y special characters” rules which would reduce it to something like 1234567890!?<^>@$%&±() which is going to be less than 30 characters

    and even if they end up roughly equal in quessing difficulty, it is still far easier to remember the 4 random words







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