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You are making the same error that led to the popularity of passwords based on a common word and some substitutions. Your calculation is for 11 characters, eac
by wcoenen 15y ago
You are making the same error that led to the popularity of passwords based on a common word and some substitutions.
Your calculation is for 11 characters, each chosen completely at random out of 63 symbols. People don't chose a password that way - we typically can't generate or remember random symbols.
XKCD's calculation is for a common word + common symbol substitutions and additions: log2(#words) + log2(#capitalization options) + log2(#substitution options) + ...