October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 26m
English
Password entropy is the measurement of how unpredictable a password is and is based on the character set used (uppercase, lowercase, digits, symbols) and password length. Since password entropy measures unpredictability, it can, therefore, predict how difficult a password is to determine, or crack, as it is commonly referred to. Password complexity has often been characterized using the concept of entropy (NIST, 2017). Conventional wisdom has always said that passwords must have some form of complexity, usually in the form of one number, one upper case letter, one lowercase letter, and one symbol (sound familiar?). Enter password length.
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