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Re:Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points by recursive on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:30PM (#24991095)
Case-sensitive password gets you <1 bit of entropy per password character. That doesn't sound like that big of a deal.
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Re:Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points by tpxl on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:45PM (#24991253)
So a password with 10 characters is 1000 times less secure if you don't use case sensitivity. That's a big deal in my eyes.
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Re:Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points by recursive on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @01:02PM (#24991392)
" times less secure" isn't really well defined. Entropy is usually measured in log-space.

And in practice, it's less than one bit, since not all characters are letters.

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