• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Troubador is not a random string

    except it is not troubador. it is troubador, ampersand, digit.

    if you know there are exactly two additional characters and you know they are at the end of the string, the first number is really slightly bigger (like 11 times)

    once the random appendix is 3 characters or more, the second number wins

    https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Divide[Power[2048%2C4]%2CPower[256%2C3]*Power[2%2C4]*4*500000]

    and moral of the story is: don’t use xkcd comic, however funny it is, as your guidance to computer security. yes, the comic suggestions are better than having the password on a post-it on your monitor, but this is 21st century ffs, use password wallet.