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Re:The man who wrote the book on password management regrets... by Taek on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:53PM (#14975296)
8 words is enough without a KDF. If you know 7 of the 8 words and there is a KDF, you might not be able to figure out which word is wrong or missing. But if there is no KDF you may be able to forget up to even 3 words.

Being able to brute Force your own password is a good thing if you can at least depend on knowing most of it.

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