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On 05.11.2009, Si St wrote: 

> By the way: Is there a way to reasonably fast check out the entropy of a chosen password or phrase?

You can calculate the strength of your passphrase using this formula:    

 bits = (n * log q) / log 2

Where "n" is the lenght of your passphrase (how many characters) and "q"
is the amount of available characters.