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> the keepass entropy estimate presumably […] tries

KeePass sources are available [0], you can see the specific algorithms it uses in [1].

[0]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/files/KeePass%202.x...

[1]: https://fossies.org/windows/misc/KeePass-2.42.1-Source.zip/K...

Thanks. I've looked at the code, and it does not seem to try to estimate the empirical distribution (doesn't appear to be using dictionaries, for examples).

Then the discrepancy maybe comes from the number of glyphs within certain categories, or their repetition?

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