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Are you using passphrases? Is it worth it?
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
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I was thinking it would be easy to brute force if just instead of guessing character by character you do word by word...but I guess just adding one special character randomly would make it a non issue.
There are a lot more words than there are characters, even including special characters, so if it is actually randomly generated from a large dictionary, a passphrase is much harder to guess
Brute force is only a thing when either they have the password hash, or the login portal is susceptible to brute force (ie shite). Both cases are rare.