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Re: Password entropy


From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:39:12 -0500

At 01:14 PM 7/19/2006, David Gillett put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
 If I choose

"1 am not going to PAY a lot for the muffler!"

as my "passphrase", *I* will probably use

"1angtPalftm"

as the actual *password*.

I just want to be clear here.  You are suggesting
that the shorter phrase is stronger than the longer
phrase?


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