[ILUG] SSH question

[Paul Biggar]

On 10/21/05, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
> with a password - there's a reason that passphrase is used instead of
> password when talking about ssh keys.

I googled and couldnt find the difference or the reason.

My understanding was the a password is something like "password" and a
passphrase is something like "this is longer and funkier so I can
remember it easily yet its really hard to brute force it", but that
conceptually they were the same, and technically interchangable. No?
Also, whats the reason?


Thanks
Paul

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