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Are they meaningfully more secure than 16 character ones?
by tdb7893 10y ago
Are they meaningfully more secure than 16 character ones?
- Zekio 10y agoI use random words, that I can type fast, with characters replaced with other characters or added characters in the words
- hdhzy 10y ago16 char passwords provide around 30 bits of entropy while 30 char passwords give you 46 bits of entropy according to old NIST pdf [0]. [0]: http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/pki-twg/y2003/presentations/twg-03-05.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/pki-twg/y2003/presentations/twg...