<div>Maybe I am the novice, but I guess I don't really get it. There's a leap there. His "strong password" consists of a collection of 25 characters of which there are 26 possibles, so if we're really talking about brute force guessing, how could 25 to the 26th power possible combinations be harder to guess then 60 or 70 (give or take) to the 26th power and some change? <br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I'm new to crypto, but when you get right down to it, I don't really grok this concept of 28 bits of entropy versus 44 bits of entropy. What is entropy? (in the crypto sense)?? And how did he manage to calculate 28 bits v 44?? Is it just because there are more digits?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don't most competently configured systems lock you out after 10 failed tries anyway?</div><div>Normally I totally support XKCD, but honestly, I can tell there's more going on in strip 936 then I understand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bean</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:20 PM, David L. Willson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm never giving my password rant again. I'm just going to send a link to this XKCD, and wait a few minutes until my novice "gets it".<br>
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<a href="http://www.xkcd.com/936/" target="_blank">http://www.xkcd.com/936/</a><br>
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