On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:25:34AM +0100, Graeme Hinchliffe wrote: > Well assuming JUST the alphabet was used in the same case thats: > > 16^26 = 20282409603651670423947251286016 possible combinations
Sorry for pedantry, not 16^26 but 26^16 = 4.36087428994289e+22 ;-) That is, assuming N is a desired number of combinations, A is an alphabet capacity (26 here), ln() is natural logarithm, we got (nearly) enough shared secret length L: L = ln(N) / ln(A). -- Fduch M. Pravking - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
