Re: Password entropy

[scott hollatz <shollatz () D UMN EDU>]

> 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?

Yes.

Which is a better password?

        abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
        1angtPalftm

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