Re: xkcd on password strength

[Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>]

OK, how about "'Twas brillig and the slithy toves..."

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Noon Silk <noonslists () gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
> wrote:
> > Many years ago I wrote a column advocating "passphrases". A passphrase
> like
> > "I really love white pizza." has many bits of entropy
>
> It consists of many letters but I hardly think it has "many" bits of
> entropy. Each letter is fairly dependent on the one prior to it. At
> least the XKCD advocates nonsensical sentences, but they are still
> words.
>
> No denying passphrases are better, in general, though (and have been
> proposed as such for several years now). And it's becoming more
> possible to use them all the time; we just need to keep encouraging
> programmers to facilitate and encourage it.
>
> --
> Noon Silk
>
> Fancy a quantum lunch? http://groups.google.com/group/quantum-lunch?hl=en
>
> "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy
> of being this signature."
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