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Hackers know half of passwords entered online, Cloudflare finds (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Are you sure you can't make a high entropy memorable password?

My scheme pulls four words at random from a large corpus

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.