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Edit: Oops, as dpark points out, I swapped two digits. My apologies. Below, my original, erroneous comment.

41 bits of entropy means you have on the order of a one in 10^12 chance (2^41) of guessing it, and 2,000^4 is on the order of 10^16. So how is the former "one eighth as secure" as the other? Wouldn’t it be 10^4 times less secure, that is, 10,000 times more likely to be cracked?



2000^4 is on the order of 10^13. Specifically it's 1.6E13. Maybe you accidentally swapped the 1.6 and the 13?




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