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Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords by dTal on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:36AM (#20081625)
Good try, but that doesn't apply to password managers. Several everyday words contain more bits than a garbled single word, but a string of dozens of truly random characters beat both.

You might be referring to https://xkcd.com/936/

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Re:Password expiration is dead, long live passwords by kebman on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:02AM (#20081951)
That's the one! ^^ And you're of course correct.
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