A better way to think about passwords

Andre Amorim andre at amorim.me
Mon Apr 18 01:27:15 CEST 2011


On 17 April 2011 23:58, Robert J. Hansen <rjh at sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
>> Summary: A 3-word password (e.g., "quick brown fox") is secure against
>> cracking attempts for 2,537 years.
>
> I am giving a great big yuk to his methodology.  There's no reference to the entropy of text, for instance.  His example of a three common word password, "this is fun," amounts to a total of 11 letters

I was thinking about that, between words, there is only a BLANK
SYMBOL, same value of any other given symbol. Well, from point of view
of math, nothing changes, all "data", but from "knowledge" point of
view about human behaviour it is possible that it's have some kind of
relevance.

--Kind Regards
AA



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