ssh-keygen(1) misinfo: English prose entropy 0.6 - 1.3 b/char!
Pekka Savola
pekkas at netcore.fi
Sun Jun 3 08:11:12 EST 2001
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001 auto92089 at hushmail.com wrote:
> For verification:
> 1) do a quick web search
> 2) read Shannon's experiment
> 3) Cover an unseen word in an ordinary book and see if you
> can guess it correctly every second to fourth time. Consider
> a lucrative career in cryptanalysis if you are consistently
> successful...
Trolling is such fun, isn't it?
Entropy rate does not mean that; if you are shown an English word,
character by character, how long does it take to guess the whole word?
Try a couple of them:
moro_
idio_
trol_
Not so hard is it? I'm sure Snake Oil Security Co. is looking for new
cryptanalysts; consider applying.
--
Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
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