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Could you help me understand your reasoning/calculation? I'd like to verify it with my expectations for a passphrase: - not-so-common (non-)words (think meme,
by darklajid 16y ago
Could you help me understand your reasoning/calculation?
I'd like to verify it with my expectations for a passphrase:
- not-so-common (non-)words (think meme, Shakespeare style English, abbreviations/artifical words -> Jedi, Klingon, whatever)
- I'd like to understand how to valuate punctuation: You don't just need to guess the passphrase, you might need to pepper it with commas, quotes, dots, question/exclamation marks at the right spots
- ars 16y agoPunctuation adds to the entropy of course. Although if there are only 5 of so symbols it doesn't add a lot, and if the punctuation is placed grammatically correctly it hardly adds anything. It's not a problem to include non-english words in your dictionary. But made up words are basically passwords, and are no longer phrases. If you choose a sequence of words that are more likely to go together that reduces the entropy. Basically you are trying to see how random your phrase is, and the "stranger" it is, the more random.