Hi, If I'm not misinformed the passphrase can be encoded using different character sets. Can I in gpg change witch one is used, or does it depend on witch operating system I use? How does it affect the way you calculate entropy if a character is encoded using 16 or 24 bits (as some characters are in UTF-8) or as a 8-bit character, if at all?
Also, let's say it is known that the characters in a passphrase has been selected from the 64 ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, # and $. This will give each character an entropy of 6 bits (log2(64)), witch if I understand correctly means that 6 of the 8 bits used to represent the character are unknown. But can you in real life tell witch six, for example for the character A, witch in binary is 01000001? The first zero will of course be known, but is there a second known digit? Oskar _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
