On 15.02.2015, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > imagine if the "word" ISN'T a word that's found in the dictionary.....ANY > dictionary.....would that qualify it as being a bit more secure?
Here's the "math" behind it, so you can calculate for yourself: The password strength (entropy) is calculated this way, B = ((L * log P) / log 2) where B is the entropy in bits, L is the length of the password, and P is the amount of possible different chars (the "pool"). So if you choose e.g. base64, P will always be 64, and if you choose a password which e.g. includes A-Za-z0-9 og random chars as %!"/(] (and so on), P will be higher, thus resulting in a higher strength of the overall password. There are P^L different passwords. In general, a password only containing letters or numbers must be *very* large to have a high security margin. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
