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Sure, they probably won't crack that, but there are other things to consider as well. A sshd on IPv4 port 22 that accepts password auth attracts attention, and
by cess11 2y ago
Sure, they probably won't crack that, but there are other things to consider as well. A sshd on IPv4 port 22 that accepts password auth attracts attention, and you'll spend CPU cycles constantly checking credentials from very large database dumps that float around. In my experience it leads to more log noise too, it seems many bots will discard your IP and stop pestering it if passwords aren't accepted.
So in practice you'll probably also use something like fail2ban, firewall rules that only allow connections from certain IP blocks, things like that.