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Lightfire228@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Yes, and no.

If the password is stored properly (hashed and salted), then a high entropy PW will make it nearly impossible for your PW to be extracted from a database dump / data leak

On the other end, if the PW is stored as plain-text, a high entropy PW is useless.

In between, a weak hash algorithm or no salt, a high entropy PW still makes it much harder to extract, but it depends


In general, 2FA is more secure, since it combines 2 different methods of authentication.

This protects the service (as well as the user) against a broader range of attacks. Such as

Among others

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