Hello, On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 05:50:47PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: > > > Und allein dieser Mangel und nichts anderes führte zum Tod. > > This is grammatical. There is a subject (or two), a verb, an.. well > whatever those things are like "zum Tod", I don't often discuss grammar > in any other language than Dutch so I forgot the technical terms. > Furthermore, the phrase actually makes sense semantically. I don't know > if somebody ever said or wrote it; that would make it even worse, since > a passphrase cracker could try sentences from a corpus of likely texts > it has scoured from the internet. > > It has grammar, it has semantics, it has a proper meaning. All these > things go at the expense of its entropy.
I assume the amount of entropy is what really matters. for instance, if on every next step you are free to choose any of 4 random words taken from 60000-word dictionary, you may put it in a grammatically correct form[*], then you must get a certain entropy per step. * Depending on the language, there may be more than one correct form (past, future, plural, first or second person, modified with a preposition...), but this randomness is hard to ensure. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
