A better way to think about passwords

Grant Olson kgo at grant-olson.net
Mon Apr 18 02:00:18 CEST 2011


On 04/17/2011 07:39 PM, Grant Olson wrote:

> 
> (you quoted 2.5 bits per char in another thread) 

Apologies, actually you didn't say this.  You said, "English text has in
the neighborhood of 1.5 to 2.5 bits of entropy per glyph."  Just
correcting myself because I know how annoying it is to be misquoted.

-- 
-Grant

"Look around! Can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?"

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