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You are confusing the fact that you can store in some encodings one character per byte, 8 bits, with a bit of entropy.
by michaelmrose 4y ago
You are confusing the fact that you can store in some encodings one character per byte, 8 bits, with a bit of entropy.
- ravi-delia 4y agoGrammatical English has about a bit of entropy per character (Wikipedia has it between 0.6 and 1.3). Most passwords won't be fully grammatical, or even close, but it's a decent worst-case bound for passwords chosen by English speakers to be memorable. If you have a specific scheme it obviously goes out the window.
- michaelmrose 4y agowith all the password leaks I wonder if you could determine the likely scheme used by a given user by the leaks associated with their email address.