Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit 286be4bf authored by ulif's avatar ulif
Browse files

In README, tell about reduced entropy.

Tell about problems with wordlist lengths and dice side numbers.
parent 06d84c5f
No related branches found
No related tags found
No related merge requests found
......@@ -278,6 +278,10 @@ Security Traps
There are issues that might reduce the entropy of the passphrase
generated. One of them is the `prefix code`_ problem:
Prefix Code
...........
If the wordlist contains, for example, the words::
"air", "airport", "portable", "able"
......@@ -299,6 +303,18 @@ Each of these measures is sufficient to protect you against the
`prefix code`_ problem.
Reduced Entropy
...............
Overall, `diceware` is a kind of mapping input values, dice throws for
instance, onto wordlist entries. We normally want each of the words in the
wordlist to be picked for passphrases with the same probability.
This, however, is not possible, if the number of dice sides and the number of
wordlist entries are relatively prime. In that case we cut some words of the
wordlist and inform the user about the matter.
Developer Install
-----------------
......
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment