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Min-Entropy

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A measure of the difficulty that an Attacker has to guess the most commonly chosen password used in a system.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Min-Entropies
possessive
Min-Entropy's
pluralpossessive
Min-Entropies'