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nemesis_abc
9y ago
The example password is unlikely to be in the dictionary. I just made it up on the fly. Another example would be: 9999.9999+aaaa.aaaa+B It is not particularly hard to remember, while it forces the attacker to enumerate 94²¹ possibilities.
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nemesis_abc
9y ago
Why "avoid repetition"? Entropy does not matter in passwords. Example: aaaaaaaaaaaaB1! is a perfectly safe password. Domain of characters: letters(26x2=52) + digits(10) + punctuation(32) = 52+10+32 = 94. Password length: 15. So, s