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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) |
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Sun, 31 Oct 2021 21:46:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> See below, if we remain at 48 bits of entropy, but instead of
> 60 have an alphabet of only 3 chars, the password length rises
> from 8.13 chars to 30.28 ...
>
> Does this tell us that it is equally difficult to randomly
> guess the both passwords from the two different configuration
> at these lengths, or what does it tell us?
If your calculation is correct, then yes, sure (if it's clear to the
attacker what exact alphabet you used). As I said, it's just counting.
> What does "48 bits of entropy" mean BTW?
Did you have a look at the wikipedia article?
Michael.
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), (continued)
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/27
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/28
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), tomas, 2021/10/28
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/28
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/28
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs),
Michael Heerdegen <=
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/31
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/31
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/23
- ERC links to man pages (was: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/25
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/25