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		bjterry on April 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security incident update It's trivial to memorize an entire sonnet. Actors and actresses memorize many times that amount. It's also trivial to write a sonnet. How many bits of entropy do you think a sonnet has?

sparkinson on April 16, 2013 [–]

Are you saying that you are happy to type in an entire sonnet when prompted for a password?

Being realistic, to expect someone to type in such a long password regardless of if they can remember it or not is clearly unreasonable.

robertfw on April 16, 2013 | [–]

For a consumer, perhaps, but for protecting thousands of individuals...

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