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Re: Strengthening the Passphrase Model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Thu Feb 11 14:23:04 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:34:37 EST."
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:47:15 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes, in part,
...
No matter what you do, you will not get around the fact that the
average human brain has a long-term memory write bandwidth of a bit
less then 1 bit/s.
...
I am reminded that Gelernter's marker for intelligence is
creativity which he concludes, in turn, is proportional to
to the individual's memory bandwidth.
--dan
[ The Muse in the Machine, 1994, ISBN 0029116023 ]
