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Re: Password entropy
From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:39:12 -0500
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? -- Roger A. Safian r-safian () northwestern edu (email) public key available on many key servers. (847) 491-4058 (voice) (847) 467-6500 (Fax) "You're never too old to have a great childhood!"
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- Re: Password entropy Basgen, Brian (Jul 19)
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- Re: Password entropy Brent Sweeny (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy David Gillett (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Buz Dale (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Roger Safian (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy scott hollatz (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Roger Safian (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Roger Safian (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Roger Safian (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy David Gillett (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Roger Safian (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy scott hollatz (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Valdis Kletnieks (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Dave Koontz (Jul 19)
- Re: Password entropy Basgen, Brian (Jul 19)
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