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Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother by Buge on Sunday March 11, 2018 @01:05AM (#16561888)
English text has 1.46 bits of entropy per character.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/1996-teahan.pdf

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Re:Master password in Firefox or Thunderbird? Do not bother by kzrdude on Sunday March 11, 2018 @06:22AM (#16562450)
You wouldn't use english text for the password, for this reason.
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