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I'd say jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj, from a human-interpetation standpoint, has very low entropy, since there is very little uncertainty as to what will come next... This would be evident if password security checkers tried to compress passwords and compare them to the original message.

i.e. "jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj" is 224 bits as a string. Huffman-encoded, you only need 0=j as a code to convert it into 28 bits, a compression of 87.5%. So this is a good way of actually checking the security of a password, if it seems to have high entropy.



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