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From the monthly archives: September 2011
Yesterday I have published an article about password entropy.
Today I would like to discuss the entropy of a phrase based password.
Phrase Based Password
A phrase based password is a password assembled from several easy to remember and spell words, delimited by spaces.
As a result, such passwords are very [...]
A common and easy way to estimate the strength of a password is its entropy.
The entropy is given by \(H = L \log_2{N}\) where \(L\) is the length of the password and \(N\) is the size of the alphabet, and it is usually measured in bits.
The entropy measures the number of [...]
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