Re: Password entropy

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At 05:28 PM 7/20/2006, Basgen, Brian put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> Right, this is where I think he is being misleading, because his
> equation doesn't allow for an entropy variable. You are right in that is
> how he is using it, but I don't think he is being accurate via the
> assumptions he has made.

Just to be clear, I would use this tool to provide guidelines.  It's
a reasonable representation for various scenarios or character set, and
length, but I'm not sure it's really striving for complete accuracy
in every situation.



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