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It reduces the password strength by at most two bits. For passwords made solely of non letters there is no reduction in password strength.
by freemint 5y ago
It reduces the password strength by at most two bits. For passwords made solely of non letters there is no reduction in password strength.
- nitrogen 5y agoIt's one bit per alphabetic character, isn't it?
- smrq 5y agoNo, it's only one bit for the first character and one for the second. The case of every other character is maintained relative to the second character, so the parity there provides the one bit of information for each subsequent alphabetic character.