From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:06:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87v91arqt2.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86k0i6uoxd.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <871r4ernmt.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o87hnrpt.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y26kkuag.fsf@web.de> <87zgr0t3vw.fsf@web.de> <87o87fy4t3.fsf@zoho.eu> <87ilxmsuqq.fsf@web.de> <87k0hxj37u.fsf@zoho.eu> <878rydbcm4.fsf@web.de> <8735okj2bx.fsf@zoho.eu> <87fsskzroz.fsf@zoho.eu> <877ddsgbx0.fsf@web.de> <878ry8vd71.fsf@zoho.eu> <87pmrj3bup.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25699"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+WVF3b1Kk1uH49L0WiGMO5+0VoA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 03 02:07:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mi4kH-0006Xl-NQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:07:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38720 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mi4kG-0005CK-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:07:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mi4jZ-00057P-5W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mi4jW-0002hf-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mi4jT-0005bm-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2021 02:06:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134324 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: >> What do you mean by that, do you mean it doesn't say >> anything, it is just the relationship between these >> three things? >> >> If so, that's good enough for me, but then what does >> "password length" mean? If "sex", "love" and "god" are >> passwords of length 3, 4 and 3 respectively, I understand >> that, but what password length are we talking about when we >> are just counting? > > I don't understand the question. The password length is the > length of the string that is used as a password. The number > of characters of the string. I never meant > something different. What does that formula communicate? The password length is a function of the number of bits of entropy and the alphabet size? What password is that? A password of just that length? ... ??? And say that the alphabet is A = {a, b, c} then |A| = 3, the entropy bits is decided by /dev/urandom, so that doesn't change either, how can the formula hold for passwords of different lengths from that alphabet, e.g. "a" (length 1), "aa" (2), "abc" (3), and so on? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal