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Why not just use the phrase without reducing?

• SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  People get warm feelings when they think they are being clever. Also GP’s reducing does is make it harder for humans to remember and easier for machines to crack.
  • Slow_Hand 5y ago
    Eh, Don’t be so presumptuous. Me needing to feel clever has nothing to do with it. My thought process is that a hacker is likely to run a dictionary attack before resorting to a brute-force method. Therefore (all else being equal) a password consisting of nonrelated characters is safer than a string of actual words. That said, I also understand that more bits in a password makes for a stronger password, so any “reduced” phrase needs to be sufficiently long. Any flaw in my approach is more out of a naive understanding of how cryptography and hackers may actually work.