Timeline for How can we accurately measure a password entropy range?
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| Jan 15, 2016 at 8:39 | comment | added | Daniel | Showing uset time to brute force an attack really depends in how mich computing power an attacker can access. This could potentially deliver a false sense of security. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 17:10 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 11, 2011 at 14:46 | history | edited | AviD♦ |
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| Jun 23, 2011 at 13:01 | vote | accept | Incognito | ||
| Jun 23, 2011 at 7:03 | comment | added | this.josh | @user502 And with true randomness you could have a key of all ones or all zeroes, which we specifically try to avoid. You could even improbably have a hundred keys of all ones or zeroes. Thats why we like pseudorandomness: the great taste of randomness with half the calories! | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 13:21 | comment | added | Incognito | @user502 Thanks for that, searching for untruths is often a powerful problem solving tool that so many people forget to think about. | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 12:56 | comment | added | user502 | One of the mathematically cool things about true randomness is that you can't measure it accurately. Because the kolmogorov complexity of a string is noncomputable, you can never say how random a string is. All you can say is how random a string isn't, based on the best compression of it you've found so far. | |
| Jun 20, 2011 at 9:32 | answer | added | user185 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 3:08 | comment | added | this.josh | Just a cautionary note about usability of passwords. Strong passwords are good only to the point at which people remember them and keep them confidential. | |
| Jun 18, 2011 at 23:03 | comment | added | AviD♦ | Very closely related, but not duplicate: security.stackexchange.com/questions/2687/… | |
| Jun 18, 2011 at 22:03 | answer | added | nealmcb | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 18, 2011 at 20:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/82182282353451008 | ||
| Jun 18, 2011 at 18:37 | history | asked | Incognito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |