@rorrr: You've been hellbanned for almost a month. ------------ His comment: > It's nearly identical. > There are around 170,000 english words (including al

@rorrr: You've been hellbanned for almost a month. ------------ His comment: > It's nearly identical. > There are around 170,000 english words (including all the obscure ones you've never heard and have no idea how to spell). > Number of 4-word combinations: 170,000^4 = 8.35 * 10^20 > Lowercase (26) + uppercase (26) + digits (10) + special characters (36) = 98 characters 98^10 = 8.17 * 10^19 > An order of magnitude difference. > And if they start bruteforcing with the simpler words (which you used in the example), there are only 5,000 - 10,000 of them, the number of your combinations drops dramatically: 5,000^4 = 6.25 * 10^14 10,000^4 = 10^16 > So unless you use very obscure words in your password, you are doing much worse than you think.