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Re: Password entropy


From: Graham Toal <gtoal () UTPA EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:51:32 -0500

A quite interesting demonstation of this concept can be found online:

http://math.ucsd.edu/~crypto/java/ENTROPY/

It's surprising to see how many letter you can guess first time.

Or the slightly less academic and significantly more distracting version
(don't blame me if this wastes half of your day; I deliberately slugged
it
so that it doesn't offer more than one quote every 15 minutes just to
make
sure people do some work during the day ;-) )

  http://www.gtoal.com/cgi-bin/cryptoquote

Graham

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