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Explicitly clarify types of passwords

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Explicitly limit the scope of the article to just passwords used in
encryption/decryption.
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## Asking the right question
Let's limit the scope of this article to passwords used in encryption/decryption. An attacker is trying to guess a password to decrypt something.
Instead of predicting what tomorrow's computers may be able to do, let's examine the biggest possible brute-force attack that the laws of physics can allow.
A supercomputer is probably faster than your phone; however, given enough time, both are capable of doing the same calculations. If time isn't the bottleneck, energy usage is. More efficient computers can flip more bits with a finite amount of energy.

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Asking the right question
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Let's limit the scope of this article to passwords used in encryption/decryption. An
attacker is trying to guess a password to decrypt something.
Instead of predicting what tomorrow's computers may be able to do, let's examine the
*biggest possible brute-force attack* that the laws of physics can allow.
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### Quantifying password strength.
*A previous version of this section wasn't clear and accurate. I've since removed the offending bits and added a clarification about salting/hashing to the [Caveats and estimates]({{<ref "#caveats-and-estimates" >}}) section.*
*A previous version of this section wasn't clear and accurate. I've since removed the
offending bits and added a clarification about salting/hashing to the [Caveats and
estimates]({{<ref "#caveats-and-estimates" >}}) section.*
A good measure of password strength is **entropy bits.** The entropy bits in a
password is a base-2 logarithm of the number of guesses required to brute-force