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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (49 children)

I wonder if you string together enough words can it be a valid key?

[–] [email protected] 109 points 4 months ago (40 children)

I would hope so, sentences and words are some of the most secure passwords/phrases you can use

[–] [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)

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