
Now find the $\log_2$ of this count to approximate the entropy. The idea of entropy is the same again (heavily simplified): Guess the number of different words your theoretical source dictionary and multiply it by the number of possible mutations the get a total count of passwords that can be generated in this way. The cartoon has the example of a word, that has been taken from a dictionary and then mutated to get the actual password.
#Calculating entropy password
The entropy of the password can be assumed to be at $48$ bits. Hence the assumed process that generated your password aeLuboo0 can generated as many different equal likely passwords, as different numbers can be represented by $47.63$ bits. The entropy in bits is now the number of bits you need to have approximately the same number of possible bit-combinations. Many passwords that can be generated in the same way as your concrete password has been generated.

Then under the assumption that you have choosen every character uniformely from all possible characters, there are in total

Find the total heat transfer, and the entropy change of the system, the surroundings.

Example: The gas in the previous examples is compressed back isothermally and (ir)reversibly. Random passwordsĪpart from that, the basic idea is the following: Say you have the password aeLuboo0 that contains lower-case chars, upper-case chars and numbers. Entropy of a Rev/irreversible Isothermal Compression. First of all: Entropy is a property of the process generating a password, not a property of an individual password.
