Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself
by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:21PM
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If you're using a famous quote, after a few words you're adding next to zero entropy per word.
You're using an analysis for random words, which is completely different.
Also in general a random word is worth around as much as two random characters. There's no clear-cut winner, use whatever you like more.
Which is longer, the alphabet or the dictionary?
There's a hell of a lot more words in any language than there are characters that make them up.
N case insensitive words is far better than N character password from the normal set of characters (alphanumeric + special characters).
Even if you restrict the combinations of words to grammatically correct sentences there's still more combinations than there are of for the same number of characters
That still holds even if you make assumptions about sentence structure, common word combinations, etc, etc. There's a lot of words out there.