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Re:Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess by TheLoneWolfling on Friday March 27, 2015 @01:10PM (#9277585)
Be careful that your "memorability" pruning doesn't reduce the entropy too much.
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Re:Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess by feld on Friday March 27, 2015 @01:14PM (#9277616)
You just increase the entropy by adding characters, numbers, etc and keeping it reasonably long (20+ chars). The entropy of my passwords is quite high according to Keepass.
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Re:Passphrases You Can Memorize That Even the NSA Can’t Guess by heinrich5991 on Friday March 27, 2015 @01:32PM (#9277765)
The thing is, you can't determine "entropy" of a password after the creation. It's the creating process that determines how "random" your password is. KeePass's measure is just an approximation, and I have no idea about how accurate it is.
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