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Re:The man who wrote the book on password management regrets... by Avernar on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:25PM (#14972159)
Nope, it's one bit extra entropy per character. The attacker must try all possible capitilazations of each word (horse, Horse, hOrse, HOrse, etc).

You've doubled the character set so it's not negligable.

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