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Password Strength Indicators Help People Make Ill-Informed Choices
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoI love articles by Troy Hunt. I upvote them, then read them. And they have always been worth the upvote. Anyways, when are websites ever going to catch on....
- weinzierl 9y ago> Now you may well be an exception (as am I) in that you use a password manager and generate random passwords in which case 20 characters is just fine. This is in my opinion the most important takeaway. If Troy Hunt generates random passwords, you should too. I like to see it this way. The only true password strength indicator goes like this. Ask yourself: "Did the creation of my password involve a good source of randomness?" If the answer is "No", your password is bad. If the answer is "Yes", it depends.