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Drahflow comments on December 2014 Bragging Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Drahflow 02 December 2014 09:19:51AM 1 point [-]

I use multiple passwords of consisting of 12 elements of a..z, A..Z, 0..9, and ~20 symbol characters, generated randomly. Total entropy of these is around 76 bits.

10 decimal digits is actually more like 33 bits of entropy.

Comment author: CBHacking 03 December 2014 09:49:14PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I (roughly) computed for 20 digits (what Alex said) and then wrote the wrong thing, because... derp? Also, yes, it's up to 66.4 bits, not 70. My bad