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A learning module about passwords
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Example of entropy for compromised passwords with password reuse and password systems #18

Open dbosk opened 6 years ago

dbosk commented 6 years ago

Alice has chosen a password $p\in P$ in the password space $P$. Let's assume that $\Pr_P(p) = 1/|P|$. If Alice employs a password system due to regular password changes, she chooses the new password $p'$.

While $\Pr_P(p) = \Pr_P(p')$ might hold true, $\Pr_P(p'|p)$ will be close to zero.

This isn't at all worked through right now, it's just the sketch of an idea. It's probably better to reason informally on this one.