On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, please tell me how entropy is measured, >> > > I count decisions. ​Mathematically a very defensible position.​ Each binary decision is one binary bit , which is the (usual) unit of entropy as well as of information. If my passwords cycle through bill1, bill2, bill3, bill4, there's only 2 bits of information or entropy once you have my algorithm. 123456 has maybe 3-5 bits entropy .. 12345 is very popular but not 50% of all passwords. It should be in the first 8-32 passwords tried ... -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
