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Re: Non-Repudiation in the Digital Environment (was Re: First

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Thu Aug 10 09:39:51 2000

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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:10:38 -0700
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>, Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
        Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
        cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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At 08:29 AM 8/9/00 -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
>It's 1) saying that the passphrase can "usually be broken".  I'm sure
>that some people manage to choose poor/short passphrases, but "usually"
>would be pushing it.  

Has anyone ever published an entropy vs. frequency study for
real-world passwords? 

[Dollars to donuts its not uniform...]








  






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