On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:15:13AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Glyph = one symbol in a language. It could be a single English letter, > a single Chinese ideogram, or a single Hangul phoneme. The more glyphs > in your passphrase, the more entropy you have (usually). English > accumulates about 1.5 bits of entropy per glyph.
Nitpick: a glyph is a specific drawn letterform. There are many ways to draw, for example, a "Roman capital A" (serif/sans, upright/slant/italic, various degrees of boldness or extension, innumerable sizes and many artsy styles) but they all map to one Unicode code point and one encoding in e.g. ASCII. A glyph is a representation of a language symbol, but not the symbol itself. All of those variants are members of the class "Roman capital A". A passphrase *could* be an image, but usually is a sequence of character codes. So, although most readers probably understood "glyph" in the way I believe it was meant, I think we should be using some other word. -- Mark H. Wood, pedantic nitwit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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