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Prunestand OP t1_j40ulxm wrote

Reply to comment by elrugmunchero in Wondering how much money it would take to crack a passphrase? I found this very useful calculator that calculates just that. by Prunestand

They use the midpoint (50%) as an estimator. This is just the expected cost.

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elrugmunchero t1_j40v5iz wrote

I know, just a scary thought, roughly about the odds of me existing.

Actually, thinking about it, there's more entropy in my DNA than your password, and we've not even got to the Earth existing, yet here I am.

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postdusk t1_j43j1k4 wrote

More information is more entropy. A novel has more entropy than a haiku. You are a password that took 13.7 billion years to crack. Expensive there you are.

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