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Various notes on using passwords and passphrases.
- An easily-guessed password
- A compromised operating system / keyboard driver.
- A microphone recording key stroke audio.
- A person standing over your shoulder.
- Losing (or a person grabbing) your computer after you decrypt everything.
- Brute-force cracking.
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Implementation flaws. e.g. the stuff on-disk may be secure, but the software that uses it may not be.
- This is by far the most problematic issue.
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A compromised BIOS?
