[Info-vax] VMS humor

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Sat Jan 2 10:25:02 EST 2021


On 1/2/21 7:40 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> For example, how much entropy is there in "Listen very carefully, I shall
>> say this only once" ?
> 
> You only have to type "listen v" into google for their 
> suggest-as-you-type to get it ... so maybe 40 bits?

I have a hard time seeing how an autocomplete mechanism has anything to
do with how a password guesser works.  As far as I know the latter is
all or nothing and it would never know it got the first word right, thus
narrowing further choices.



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