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Re: xkcd on password strength
From: Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:58:21 -0400
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 passphraselike"I really love white pizza." has many bits of entropyIt 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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