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Length doesn't make it harder to crack, entropy does.

Length is a good way to add entropy if the characters are not predictable.

"Ava234ncqli3h23rn2f" is a lot stronger than "Ava234ncqli3"

"DonaldTrump" is barely stronger than "Donald"

Hopefully that makes sense.

parent mod 4 years ago

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