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There are two points to add: (1) If you use a randomly generated password of upper/lower/punctuation that's 63^length; (2) Four words is vocabulary^4. One brea
by karmakaze 5y ago
There are two points to add: (1) If you use a randomly generated password of upper/lower/punctuation that's 63^length; (2) Four words is vocabulary^4.
One breakeven point is 63^10 (9.8e17) ~ 20000^4 (1.6e17).
This is being quite generous to the four words as the likelyhood of word selection from the vocabulary would be far from uniform. Also offset by the fact that shorter length passwords are brute-forced. If four-words became the dominant meta then we could instead have brute force applied to the word dictionary forms.
- ncmncm 5y agoUse shuf(1) to pick words reliably randomly from /use/share/dict/ dictionaries. It is not a mistake to misspell the words proposed, but not necessary. Preserving capitalization is not necessary.