-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 00:39 2005-06-06, you wrote: >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 > I suggest that you use , and . instead of # and $. Otherwise the characters are found on completely other places at a US keybord. Per Tunedal
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