[43382] in Cypherpunks
Repeated Words/characters in Password/Phrase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Cabeen)
Tue Nov 14 16:24:08 1995
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:11:04 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Ted Cabeen <cabeen@netcom.com>
Do repeated words in a PGP passphrase make the pass phrase less secure than
a passphrase without any repeated words? And on the same note, do repeated
letters in a UNIX password make that password easier to break? I can't seem
to find anything in my books on cryptography that mention this. Thanks.
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