Re:A Really Good Article on How Easy it Is to Crack Passwords
by salmonellaeater on Thursday September 05, 2013 @04:06AM
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Shannon did an experiment that found the entropy of English text is about 1.6 bits per character. This is probably a high estimate, since the kinds of sentences you might think up for a password probably have lower entropy than if you used a source of random bits to generate valid sentences.
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