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by Dangeranger 2104 days ago
Increasing the passphrase to four words would bring the odds up to 1 / 6,990,080,303,376. In magic-tunnel I believe there is a flag to change the number of words used by default. It appears that schollz/croc allows you to use your own passphrase, but not increase the default word size, that would be a good feature request.
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You're quite right, of course, but keep in mind that magic-wormhole is using a much smaller wordlist, and in fact only has 1 / 65536 odds by default. The people writing software in this space don't seem to believe this is a credible threat.
You can use whatever string you want as the passphrase for Magic Wormhole, the receiver just won't get tab completion.
How would tab completion work in a situation like this? Are the clients exchanging information about the passphrase over the same communication channel?