• shrugs@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      see, you didn’t get the whole comic. 4 words out of a dicitionary with 2000 words has more combinations then a single uncommon non gibberish baseword with numeral and puction at the end. as long as the attacker knows your method.

      a dicitonary attack will not lower the entropy of 44 bits, thats what the comic is trying to say

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      5 months ago

      this assumes a dictionary is used. Otherwise the entropy would be 117 bits or more. The only problem is some people may fail to use actually uniformly random words drawn from a large enough set of words (okay, and you should also use a password manager for the most part)