Timeline for What is the entropy per Diceware word if a random symbol is inserted into a random position in the word?
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 19:44 | history | edited | Nova | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
uniformly chosen
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 12:24 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 14, 2014 at 8:27 | comment | added | user12600 | It is also worth pointing out that this entropy estimation assumes that your random choice of a character to insert is uniformly random, i.e. you have no preference for any particular letter or uppercase/lowercase/digit distinction. Any deviation, however unintentional, will lower the actual entropy further. For example, if you find yourself choosing "X" in one out of eight cases, that's only 3 instead of 5.95 bits. | |
| Jul 14, 2014 at 6:37 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 5:59 | history | answered | Nova | CC BY-SA 3.0 |