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Created August 16, 2011 18:04
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We actually need more words, as entropy of the words is less than characters.
Suppose there is about 50000 words (There is 301 000 main entries in OED).
Than
50000^x > 94^13 => x => 5.5
So i would say that
"balloons are very nice" < "@$XsBv2JMc473"
Also entropy of word like "are" is almost zero, so predictable.
And xkcd strip actually kind of takes this into account.
I will stick with pronounceable/memorizable passwords
like pwgen kindly generates for me.
P.S. You have typo in your passwords.
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