Re: Password entropy

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

Thanks for the post, I found it really useful.

At 03:52 PM 7/23/2006, Valdis Kletnieks put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> What chews up more entropy is the patterns *inside* each word.  In English, the
> "next letter" is usually easy to predict (and therefor has little *effective*
> randomness or entropy).

I have a couple of questions.

Does only English suffer from this problem, and would it make
a stronger passphrase to use one non-English word in your phrase?


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