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Re:PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function by Freaky on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:29AM (#35627893)
> Correct Horse Battery Staple 4 lg(100000) = 33

I think you mean 66. More realistically, 52 for Diceware's 7776-word dictionaries, or 44 for XKCD's 2000 common words.

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Re:PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function by ravi-delia on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:34PM (#35643376)
Yep, I somehow internalized that there were 100,000 words (on reflection, I couldn't name a tenth of that in one sitting), but also halved the result, and the error canceled out a bit. Terrible.
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