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 bef

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.