Jim Choate forwarded: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:23:49 -0500 > From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Outside of the good possibility that they might be quotations from > Islamic religious texts, why would you think Arabic passwords are any > easier to guess? How many bits of entropy does each Arabic character contain? * Written Arabic has more total symbols than does English, but some are used only rarely, so maybe there's less entropy in a passphrase of given length. And maybe Arabic characters are more work on average to type than English characters *; I'm not familiar with Arabic keyboard layouts, but there are enough unique characters that chording or something must be involved. If it's more work to type a 20-character Arabic passphrase, maybe most users will settle for 10 characters. * I'm not being lazy in asking rather than looking it up myself. At the moment I have only email access, no web. I'll look these up if no one posts the data by the time browsing is restored. SRF -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel
