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rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And more and more businesses are also limiting what characters you use.

Like, my random generator uses characters from the entire European UTF-8 printable character set. This expands the number of usable characters from about 68-74 (the typical uppercase, lowercase, 0-9 & special characters) to about 1,200 characters. This includes all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek variations used across Europe.

Just using the wider UTF-8 range nearly always doubles the bitwise complexity (as KeePass measures it) if not more, thereby dramatically reducing the ability for the password to be brute-forced. Not to mention using characters that are not expected to be in passwords in the first place - most brute forcing simply doesn’t account for that where a primarily English-speaking victim set is concerned.

Plus, the passwords are not short. I usually prefer 32 characters, and in important/mission-critical services I expand it to 64 characters.

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