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Re:VNC Roulette by gcr on Sunday March 27, 2016 @11:09AM (#11370180)
Five random english words (100000^5) is stronger than 12 random printable ASCII characters (95^12). It's more memorable, too.

User-hurting policies like "Thou shalt have at least 2 symbols in thine password" are partly to blame.

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Re:VNC Roulette by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:27PM (#11370915)
You want to be careful that you don't end up with "five random english words (4000^5)", though.

And it's hard to enforce people not using phrases.

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