On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:12:09PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: Dan Ritter [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:59 PM > > > > Suppose we play the game, and I think of a phrase, and you say > > "the magic word is squeamish ossifrage", and purely by chance, > > that is what I was thinking of. Is the entropy zero? > > What was the probability of me, purely by chance, making that guess? The > entropy measurement is not dependent on whether or not I actually succeed in > guessing right - it's dependent on the probability that I would succeed in > guessing right.
Worse, we don't get to choose our attackers, so it's the probability of a successful, educated guess by someone in the set of people who play the game. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
