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Quoth manpage: otherwise easily guessable (English prose has only 1-2 bits of entropy per word, and provides very bad passphrases). The passphrase can be Whoever wrote that manpage is either possessed of some amazing human insight to which I am not privvy, chose a very non-representative sample of English prose, or is just plain wrong. I know none of you would ever make such a glaring error,

...context). I suspect the original author of the manpage is from Finland also; perhaps the confusion is due to some language difference. >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_ What you are alluding to is the conditional probability of the (in your examples, last) character dependent on the preceeding ones. While that is an interesting measurement, it's not the one under discussion, and has units of "bits per character" (or letter). http://cs.fit.edu/~mmah...