Re: Password entropy

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

At 12:05 PM 7/24/2006, Basgen, Brian put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> This isn't going to be strong when combined with regular words. "At the
> moment" is 13 characters, at 3.5 bits of entropy, gives us 45.5 bits
> total.

OK...so how long can I expect this phrase to last?  Are there tools or
spreadsheets that allow you to evaluate various combinations?

As I said, I'm not looking for unbreakable, just long enough that the
phrase is likely to survive long enough that our regular passphrase
expiration will make it useless.


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