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These tables circulating on the internet of brute force password hacks are totally incorrect.

These tables only work for passwords generated randomly by computers or applications such as KeePassXC, if the password is generated by a human they are useless, since humans are predictable and when a password is hacked by brute force different types of dictionaries are used which substantially shortens the hacking time.

If you want to measure well the entropy of your password with an algorithm that takes into account dictionary attacks and predictive attacks use the KeepassXC calculator.

Recommendation: Never use human generated passwords.

1GLENCo 1y ago

I use KeePassXC to generate a new random password for everything that asks for a password. I also am paranoid about the rise of quantum computing, so always try to generate as long of a password as possible.

Most services have very restrictive rules for what they allow you to set your password to. It's laughable that most banks have the stupidest and weakest rules of them all. None of my banks have any option to add TOTP 2FA, and most of them have rules which restrict the maximum length of your password to something which forces you to use very low entropy. Smh.

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