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Originally Posted by Cherry7
The intersting thing about that is that it seems to be 99% about length....
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With brute forcing longer passwords will take exponentially longer to crack.
A single password with uppercase letters only will require up to 26 attempts to crack, but increase that to two and we're now at 676 (26 x 26)... go up to 10 and it's a number I'd have difficulty comprehending... 141,167,095,653,376
Of course there's no point having a "good" password if you're transmitting it cleartext via FTP, or you have something on your desktop or server that is catching the password as it's used.