tfm@europe.pub to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoHackers know half of passwords entered online, Cloudflare findscybernews.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down11
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minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAre you sure you can’t make a high entropy memorable password? My scheme pulls four words at random from a large corpus
minus-squareflatbield@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-22 months agoJust compare the number of possibilities. Number of words to the 4th power to 94 to the 15th power. Your corpus would have to be 25 million words. In contrast, there are about 800K words in the english language and about 1000 commonly used words.
Are you sure you can’t make a high entropy memorable password?
My scheme pulls four words at random from a large corpus
Just compare the number of possibilities. Number of words to the 4th power to 94 to the 15th power. Your corpus would have to be 25 million words. In contrast, there are about 800K words in the english language and about 1000 commonly used words.