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Does it make sense to have long SSH Key with shorter Passphrase?

If we encrypt our data with a longer SSH key which is protected by a shorter passphrase (with a decent entropy), then the limiting factor is entropy of the passphrase. So why do we use a longer key at ...
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Security of keys that are as long as the data

If both communicating sides end up with the same secret 3000-bit key, is it enough to XOR each byte of the messages with each byte of the secret key to make it secure? Wikipedia says it is, but I ...
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