maximum passphrase for symmetric encryption ?

[Jerome Baum]

On 2011-12-28 00:27, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote:
>> I can't tell for gpg specifically but it's not so much about
>> "characters". It's about entropy. Natural language is redundant, and
>> diceware uses words from natural language.
> 
> Yes, but each word in the diceware list contains about 12.9 bits of
> entropy, due to the random nature of rolling a fair D6.

How is this in conflict with what I said?


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