So how much entropy is there in a random human keystroke, anyway?
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I'm asking how long I need to bash my keyboard for until this random string becomes a secure password
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Plus it's not as if my password is constrained to 8 characters here. I mean, this is Spotify! It's not, like, a bank
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Smash cut to me having my identity stolen because my password was the trivially-guessable "sdgfhdsaflkjghfd"
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@qntm There's about 32 keys you can hit with each keystroke. Patterns like alternating-hands reduce that by, pessimistically, two bits. -
@qntm call it 3 bits per keystroke? 20 characters of random mashing will give a 60-bit password, which is plenty. - 2 more replies
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