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    porcupine87
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    March 11, 2014, 11:30:17 AM
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    Seems I've caused some controversy, heh.  Can we at least agree that in order from weakest to strongest password strength, it would be:

    • elephant
    • 3l3ph4nT
    • flying elephants with bow ties
    • fLy1ng-3l3ph4nT5_wiTh*b0w.t13$

    But it would be almost impossible to commit the last one to memory.

    None of the above are very secure against a determined and well-funded attacker - not even the last one.
    7 to 8 diceware words, on the other hand, is all you need to be very safe for years.

    You might be interested in my NoBrainr script, which is a simple example of diceware applied to bitcoin address generation:
     https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/308972.0


    ah c'mon. The last one is nearly like 80^31 (80 = number of characters). This is 10^59. But ok, it's not completly random. So let's make 10^40.
    If you take your 8 dice words out of a 10 000 dictionary, what do you get? 10^32

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