> It still reduces the potential brute force search space. I may be playing Devil's advocate, & these may be the ramblings of a fool but... The space of possi

> It still reduces the potential brute force search space. I may be playing Devil's advocate, & these may be the ramblings of a fool but... The space of possible passwords with "N characters" is many, many times larger than the space with "1 to N-1 characters" combined. Infact it makes it reasonably insignificant?