[Discuss] ssh keys question

[Bill Ricker]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, please tell me how entropy is measured,
>>
>
> I count decisions.


​Mathematically a very defensible position.​ Each binary decision is one
binary bit , which is the (usual) unit of entropy as well as of information.

If my passwords cycle through bill1, bill2, bill3, bill4, there's only 2
bits of information or entropy once you have my algorithm.

123456 has maybe 3-5 bits entropy ..  12345 is very popular but not 50% of
all passwords. It should be in the first 8-32 passwords tried ...



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