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| Apr 30, 2020 at 12:04 | comment | added | Graham Hill | @Freiheit the paper was at research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=227130 | |
| Apr 29, 2020 at 10:44 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @Scz yes... i even wrote the words out right and got the numbers wrong, how daft! | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | Scz | @gbjbaanb shouldn't it be 52^30 ≙ 171 bit vs. 8000^5 ≙ 65 bit? | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @JorgeLeitao calculate the entropy of 30^52 (assuming upper and lower case) to 5^8000 (assuming 8000 words in a dictionary). The number of combinations are set of symbols ^ number of them which works out as:3e+51 v 2e+19. Entropy is log2 of these values. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 3:36 | comment | added | Jorge Leitao | Does 5 random words have the equivalent entropy of 30 random characters? | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 17:06 | comment | added | Freiheit | This article is also in a similar vein. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-active-directory-identity/… . | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 17:05 | comment | added | Freiheit | I tried to locate the paper, I recall hearing similar advice from MS or some other authoritative source. I think this might be it but MS has published quite a few papers on password strength and mangement - microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/… | |
| Apr 27, 2020 at 15:19 | history | answered | Graham Hill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |