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Re:Authentication Cheat Sheet by darkarmani on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:21PM (#8985702)
Exactly. If my password is 20 characters, why is it more secure to have it be 10 characters with using upper, numbers, and symbols? (ie: 26^20 >> 95^10).
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Re:Authentication Cheat Sheet by gnopgnip on Monday February 02, 2015 @01:30PM (#8985780)
Dictionary attacks work very well on passwords like this.
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