On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 01:00 +0200, Morton D. Trace wrote: > Measuring the strength of a randomly selected password > > > Dear list readers I just found this article. > > http://www.redkestrel.co.uk/Articles/RandomPasswordStrength.html > > > Measuring the strength of a randomly selected password > > > Calculating the entropy of a password is here well explained, > I don't know if it is mathematically correct, > no proof is delivered, but it is easy to understand.
This is correct. I am a mathematician. :) However, the key (no pun intended) is that each character has to be truly randomly selected or you will end up with much less entropy per character. Cheers, Eric
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