Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 days agoIf it’s a bunch of words found in any dictionary then with or without character substitution it’ll be easy to crack.
Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 days agoIf it’s a bunch of words found in any dictionary then with or without character substitution it’ll be easy to crack.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It’s not. A dictionary has on the order of ≈100,000 (10^5) words in it. Picking five words entirely at random gives you 10^25 combinations, which is about the complexity of 14 alphanumeric characters. So pretty secure.
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