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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

then someone uses a dictionary attack and your password gets cracked within minutes

[–] sus 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

this assumes a dictionary is used. Otherwise the entropy would be 117 bits or more. The only problem is some people may fail to use actually uniformly random words drawn from a large enough set of words (okay, and you should also use a password manager for the most part)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

see, you didn't get the whole comic. 4 words out of a dicitionary with 2000 words has more combinations then a single uncommon non gibberish baseword with numeral and puction at the end. as long as the attacker knows your method.

a dicitonary attack will not lower the entropy of 44 bits, thats what the comic is trying to say