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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by robocat on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:46PM (#20679194)
However symbol frequency is also significant for entropy.

Do you think 1 in 25 four letter passwords contain a backtick?

If you were brute forcing an ASCII password (no whitespace), would you naively cycle from ! up to ~ for each character?

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Re:NULL license plate not such a bright idea by monocasa on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:23PM (#20680709)
The context is randomly generated passwords, so dictionary attacks (or other attacks that look at the plaintext from a Huffman encoding perspective) aren't really relevant.
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