Passwords
What is the space is not evenly distributed?
- English speaking people using English-like words?
- P(P) in 1/78 = 1/117,649
- (2.9 bits/symbol ~= 7 options per symbol)
If I can guess 100 per second, this is only about 1,000 seconds, or under 20 minutes!
Lots of other related results:
- How often to change your password?
- Are generated passwords better?
- How about password analysis at inception?