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Oh yeah, my assumption is that it's 4 words chosen from a 100,000 word dictionary. I honestly have no idea if it's a reasonable estimate but it stuck in my head
by ravi-delia 4y ago
Oh yeah, my assumption is that it's 4 words chosen from a 100,000 word dictionary. I honestly have no idea if it's a reasonable estimate but it stuck in my head from XKCD's original correct-horse-battery-staple comic. Of course in real life an attacker won't know necessarily the distribution you've pulled your password from, but by using the exact distribution in your calculations you have an ironclad lower bound.
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoDiceware uses 7776 word dictionary, xkcd uses a shorter dictionary.
- ravi-delia 4y agoMy God, where on Earth did I get 100,000? I mean that's a lot of words, plausibly more than I will ever hear. And how did it just cancel out anyway so I got roughly the right entropy? This will frustrate me until I understand how I fucked it so totally