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Yes that is also true, but a password like 'userfirstnameuserlastname' can be weaker than '$userfirstname@123' isn't it?
by rukshn 6y ago
Yes that is also true, but a password like 'userfirstnameuserlastname' can be weaker than '$userfirstname@123' isn't it?
- injb 6y agoYou could be right about those examples. But the real problem is that neither of them are particularly random. The first one is easy to guess for obvious reasons, and the second one might be a little harder, but not much. Compared to something like the famous "correcthosebatterystaple" (https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/) they're both easy. Think of it like this: you have n^m possibilities, where n is the number of choices you have for each character, and m is the number of characters. Which number matters more?