• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    I think you could thin your dictionary if you know there are only so many different letters being used. You could ignore all passwords with more than N different letters.

    To be fair, once you start worrying about any of this with a password that long, you are probably attempting to protect yourself from a state entity. No one will ever spend this amount of (computational) effort on you unless you have a large target on your back.

    Don’t worry though, I wasn’t suggesting you’d use this password. But once you spend 30 minutes analayzing some random keysmash as if it were used as a password, you basically have to comment about it. Something something sunken costs.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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      7 days ago

      Sure! But how would you know that there’s only n letters being used? I guess you could make your search start from all passwords with only 1 letter for the entire length of the password, then 2, then 3 etc if you think its likely that they haven’t used a strong password.

      You mean you aren’t being targeted by the state for your posts in femcel memes? You need to femcel harder! /j