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Re: passphrases with more than 160 bits of entropy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Thu Mar 23 16:49:16 2006
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:25:58 -0600
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
On Mar 22, 2006, at 20:11, John Denker wrote:
>> But if you apply thoughtfully to a single fixed sequence, you
>> correctly get the answer zero.
>
> I agree with all that, except for the "But". Shannon well knew that
> the entropy was zero in such a situation.
Sure. The "but" was to someone who thought the application would
give a different answer.
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