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by rcxdude
1380 days ago
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The important thing is that your PIN has zero entropy, regardless of its value. Entropy is a property of distributions, not individual values. You may be thinking of the probability (or information content) your PIN is assigned when looking at the overally distributions of PIN, in which case it probably does matter how popular your birthday is (and whether it also matches common patterns people use for PINs). This does feed into the calculation of entropy for the distribution but then it ceases to tell you anything about your PIN specifically. It also only makes sense when you are looking at it relative to the distribution, so it matters how you specify the PINs you are comparing it to. The 'information content' of a given outcome is the logarithm of the inverse of its probability (i.e. more unlikely events give you more information), and the entropy of a distribution is the expected value of this information content. |
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