Re:PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
by dangerlibrary on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:35PM
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> English has ~1 bit of entropy per character.
I think the discrepancy here is coming from the fact that you are assuming the password is using English words, where others are assuming completely randomly selected characters from the set /[a-zA-Z0-9]/, plus some special characters, which yields substantially more than 1 bit per character.
I think the discrepancy here is coming from the fact that you are assuming the password is using English words, where others are assuming completely randomly selected characters from the set /[a-zA-Z0-9]/, plus some special characters, which yields substantially more than 1 bit per character.