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[–] 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

It does doesn't it?

The higher the number of bits, the more entropy in the system.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    It's a pointlessly obscure way of saying there are more numbers

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Its a measure of the randomness of numbers in the system, ie the definition of entropy.

    People do use it to sound cool, but this use still fits its mathematic definition.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I know. Its still pointlessly obscure

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Aren't all words you don't understand obscure ?

    Entropy is the correct word and is commonly use in cryptography.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Its a very simple concept and so there's no reason to give it a scientific name which doesnt mean anything to most people

    And by the way I would say that entropy isnt even a useful term here. Entropy is defined as

    k ln(O)

    where O is the total number of microstates (here the number of unique keys that can be made in the system) and k is the boltzmann constant. For the purpose of brute-force attacks we're interested in the total number of microstates O, and so the logarithmic scaling of entropy isn't meaningful.

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