Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother
by kuschku on Saturday March 10, 2018 @07:21PM
(#16560901)
I did, but that assumes the average person. This is HN, not Facebook, so we can make different assumptions.
E.g., we can assume that everyone has read the famous XKCD on passwords, and is using passwords that are a bunch of words after another, in lowercase ascii, which would get us somewhere around 80 bits of security, and still keep it memorable.
Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother
by Buge on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:07AM
(#16561891)
That xkcd comic recommends a password that by its own estimate is 44 bits of entropy. Why do you assume a HN user would choose something stronger than that?
E.g., we can assume that everyone has read the famous XKCD on passwords, and is using passwords that are a bunch of words after another, in lowercase ascii, which would get us somewhere around 80 bits of security, and still keep it memorable.