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by throwawayffffas 1611 days ago
Entropy is really a measure of password length.
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That's basically right for passwords.

Of course, if we impose password complexity requirements (e.g. must have a digit or an uppercase letter), it actually reduces the entropy in the password!

Entropy is a measure of the potential state space. So password length matters a lot but so does the size of the character set.