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Solid advice - except for three issues: 18 characters, in 2014, is not "fantastically long" at all. The choice of lcase/lcase+ucase only gets you a single bit p

Solid advice - except for three issues: 18 characters, in 2014, is not "fantastically long" at all. The choice of lcase/lcase+ucase only gets you a single bit per character typed - password length matters most, everything else is just icing on the cake: nice, but non-essential. Also, password meters are mostly harmful - the author takes some arbitrary rules and turns them into a measurement - that's okay for weeding out horribly weak passwords, though.

Darkmyst 13y ago
If the password is truly random (and uses the entire keyspace - upper/lower/number/symbol) then 18 characters is fantastically long. At 1 trillion guesses per second it takes ~1.3 Trillion Centuries to exhaustively search the 18 character key space that uses all four things (upper/lower/number/symbol)