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Old 02-18-2008, 01:10 PM
Kristian Gjøsteen
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Default Re: Please rip apart a Noob's pathetic attempts...

bealoid <signup@bealoid.co.uk> wrote:
>3) Always choosing the largest possible password is -I **think**- a
>flaw. That reduces the space of passwords an attacker will have to
>search to find your password.


Not by much. Compute the number of k-letter passwords vs the number of
at-most-k-letter passwords.

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