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by zokier 4442 days ago
> However, the entropy calculation in the XKCD comic assumes that the characters are uncorrelated with each other, the way they would be if you used a totally random password.

No. A word picked from 2048 word dictionary has 11 bits of entropy, that is where XKCD gets its 44 bits of entropy for four words.