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Your math is off. Even if you take the 11-bit estimate (if you use something like diceware you get 13 bits), 10 words give you 110 bits. Meanwhile there are 95
by oefrha 7y ago
Your math is off. Even if you take the 11-bit estimate (if you use something like diceware you get 13 bits), 10 words give you 110 bits. Meanwhile there are 95 ASCII printables, 16 of them give you a maximum of 105 bits, and usually people don’t use the full range (ambiguity, especially painful to type, etc.) & don’t generate a uniformly random string, which means you’re getting fewer than that. Even 95 is an optimistic estimate.
- Buge 7y agoI said "might be", and someone might estimate a word to have 10 bits of entropy. And you previously said dictionary words, not random dictionary words, so a human choosing those words might choose words that relate to each other.