Victor Duchovni wrote:
> A
> security savvy user will recognize this as a second password, that
> multiple sites seem to want to share, and enter something unique and
> unmemorable (stored on a "keychain" or just discarded if the primary
> password is similarly safely stored).
In fact, I see secu
Leichter, Jerry wrote:
> > | A couple of questions. How did you come up with the ~2.5 bits per
> > | word? Would a longer word have more bits?
> > He misapplied an incorrect estimate! :-) The usual estimate - going
> > back to Shannon's original papers on information theory, actually - is
> > th
Allen wrote:
> Now take the phrase "Mary had a lamb, and its fleece was as white as
> snow." Not counting the quotes it is 52 characters and has both upper
> and lower case characters, spaces and two specials or a total of 55 key
> space. How big would the rainbow table be to contain that? How long
