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Yep. I started learning a little bit about entropy a few months ago. It's interesting stuff, even though I never got on well with statistics and probability at school

Thanks for the great advice re: singlepass. I'm going to use it for my next file backup

Yep. I looked at rainbow tables and also a site that reverse-guesses a hashed word for you. If I use gibberish for my password (a car registration plate, for example) then it is much harder to reverse engineer.

Also, so long as the potential attacker has no idea that I would hash a password before ...

Thanks for the link to singlepass. That's a neat little utility and I guess it works like salting.

I mainly asked the original question because of a file I need to keep encrypted on USB stick, which I'm encrypting using a short, gibberish password that is hashed. It is short to prevent me from ...

Hi there, first post.

I've successfully used AES Crypt in Ubuntu for encryption/decryption of files. I'm guessing that one of the first things AES Crypt does during encryption is to hash my password, but I'm wondering if it would help my files be nice and secure if I hash my password manually first ...